Yesterday.

Yesterday was a pretty intense day for me.

The University of Texas is a huge school. It has over 50,000 undergraduate and graduate students That is a lot of people.

Yesterday a guy in a ski mask ran around on school campus shooting a machine gun and finally ran into the library. He was found on the 6th floor of the library where he had shot him self. if you want details here is a  News article.

Jed is a UT student and he was in class when the emergency sirens started, the school send out text messages and emails to all the students and staff and as soon as they realised what was going on his instructor made them all move to a different class room. The room they had been in was facing the library and had a big row of huge windows not a good place to be when there is a lunatic in the library with a semi automatic weapon.

Jed got online and saw that i was on facebook so we started chatting.

He told me what was going on and assured me he was fine.

 here is a snippet.

9:30amJed  -but we are in an inside classroom with tables against the doors

we are on lock down

9:30amMe -scary!

aaaaaaaaaaaaah

time to pray

9:31amJed -I'm gonna study

9:31amMe -OK

i love you do not die!

hide behind the door and take em' out with your pocket knife

9:32amJed -I'll get right on that

9:33amMe -stab em in the shoulder blade so they cant use their arms

and kick them in the nuts for good measure

9:34amJed -the girl next to me says to poke them in the eyes too

9:34amMe -good call

.................................

9:50amJed -the police just moved us into another room

they barged in with automatic assault rifles and made us all put our hands up

several people took pictures of the police with their cell phones

9:53amMe -ha ha

9:54amMe -OK so that is pretty scary!

see if someone will email you their pictures

hello blog!

ahh I'm freaking out and I'm not there! how are you?

9:55amJed -just fine

9:55amMe -OK that is good

9:55amJed -the police pounding on the door kinda freaked me out

we were hoping that they really were police when we unblocked the door

9:56amMe -did you hide behind the door like i told you to?

9:56amJed -no

they were blocked with tables

and I was talking to my teacher about lesson plans

9:57amMe -yea, that's worth dying for

lesson plans

9:57amJed -did you see the police presence?

some how I don't think that my hiding behind the door to take them out would help much

all I would have done was get myself shot by friendly fire

and you should have seen them come through the door

9:59amMe -scary i bet

9:59amJed -they were ready to shoot us if we gave them a reason

the shooter had an automatic rifle

and they are looking for another one

As you can see there at 9.54 I have my priorities straight!

So here are a few pictures of the police escorting Jed's class to another room. They took every one in the whole building and crammed them into 4 class rooms. I'm assuming so they could search the rest and have a smaller area to protect should there be a need.

Can you see Jed? there he is in the back of the group with the gray and orange shirt!

Intense!

Imagine a group of police officers dressed like that bursting into your class room screaming at you to put your hands up! I might have peed my pants.