Boston Marathon Explosion

[waynemah]

Originally Posted by kien

Thank you Brad and everyone for your concerns and well wishes. My Wife and I were indeed at the Boston marathon. It was pretty chaotic, scary and surreal being at ground zero of that attack and I'm still processing it.. However, we are safe and on our way home now. Thank you again.

I couldn't imagine going through something so chaotic. I'm glad your okay!

Voting you in for the most hardcore Canreefer ever... After borderline being bombed, the last thing I'd do is check on some fish stuff.

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by kien

Thank you Brad and everyone for your concerns and well wishes. My Wife and I were indeed at the Boston marathon. It was pretty chaotic, scary and surreal being at ground zero of that attack and I'm still processing it.. However, we are safe and on our way home now. Thank you again.

[kien]

Thanks again everyone! We are back home safe on Canadian soil once again.

Originally Posted by waynemah

I couldn't imagine going through something so chaotic. I'm glad your okay!

Voting you in for the most hardcore Canreefer ever... After borderline being bombed, the last thing I'd do is check on some fish stuff.

thanks :-) Needless to say it was a crazy day. I was about 800m from the finish line getting ready for my final push through the home stretch but then they started to set up a perimeter around the explosions. Those of us continuing to come in were stopped and were told that the race had been shut down. It continued to get congested as we started to bunch up and had no clue what was going on. It was difficult for us to get anywhere because the finishing chute actually stretched out for a few kilometers from the actual finish line with fences and spectators on either side. All we could hear around us were sirens. Eventually I made my way out of the chute and asked a random spectator what was going on and they told me something happened at the finish line. Information was spares because in that area the cell towers were flooded so I had no cell service at all for quite a while. News eventually spread through the thick crowd and panic and chaos set in. All the while emergency vehicles were continuing to poor into the area, roads were being blocked off, thousands of tired (we had just run 41Km), dazed and confused marathons were wandering around wondering WTF was going on.

I slowly made my way out of the downtown core around various detours and as I cleared the congestion of the cell towers my phone started to go crazy with text messages, FB messages, voicemails, emails. I was finally able to get a hold of my wife whom thankfully was not waiting for me at the finish line. She had crossed well ahead of me and was waiting for me at a park a block from the finish line when the bombs went off.

Anyway, I spent the rest of the day catching up with everyone who was concerned and assuring them that we were OK. All the bomb talk was getting a little crazy and I needed to switch gears and take a break from it all so I decided to check into Canreef to answer some tank/fish related PMs that I had waiting for me.

[Delphinus]

Such a sad day. Incomprehensible.

Was a huge relief when you finally answered our texts. (Sorry that we added to the flurry of phone notifications...)

[kien]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

(Sorry that we added to the flurry of phone notifications...)

No worries Tony! It was actually quite comforting to get in touch with everyone. In the midst of all that sadness and chaos it brought me warm feelings to know that so many of my friends were concerned, cared and reached out.

[Zoaelite]

Originally Posted by kien

Thank you Brad and everyone for your concerns and well wishes. My Wife and I were indeed at the Boston marathon. It was pretty chaotic, scary and surreal being at ground zero of that attack and I'm still processing it.. However, we are safe and on our way home now. Thank you again.

Happy your safe Kiener!

[rhody605]

Good to hear that you are safe and sound kien.

[reefermadness]

Glad your safe buddy.