It is now 4:51 pm Mon. April 15, and this report comes to you from a residence, one block from the Bunker Hill Monument in Charlestown:
We're okay. But evidently we were more lucky than we realized, and quite close to the explosions at Boylston & Exeter.
Ruth & I were on the packed Green Line, subway train sitting at Arlington stop. The usual hopelessly garbled voice came on, saying either "RRowllbazzle )(&^%$#@!," or, possibly, "Station Closed. Everyone exit the train and go up to street level." So we joined the throng, all of us clueless of any crisis, trudging up the steps to Aaahlington Street. Up there, still lots of Marathon crowds milling around, and everyone under 30 was cursing at their cellphones for not working. Then emergency vehicles started pouring in from all over. We walked over to Charles Street toward MGH, to pick up a shuttle bus to the Chaaalestown Navy Yard,
just a couple blocks from our condo. Ambulances were pouring into MGH. We could see police cars coming into town from everywhere. A whole bus full of fire-fighters careened around a corner, lotsa unmarked cars flashing blue lights, black police pickup trucks even rushing over the Tobin Bridge from places like F***in' Reveah. Now, we are hearing at least 2 people killed, and
25-28 people injured, including limbs blown off.
Superb reportage, as one would expect from "Bites." Horrible act carried out by men with beards.
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