Does anyone remember if DC shut down during the Sniper Attacks?

[Logical]

I don't remember the city closing or cancelling games, concerts, etc. But I didn't pay much attention. Anyone remember?

[JI7]

1. there wasn't the threat of huge explosions taking out many people and they didn't know

who they were looking for.

[godai]

2. They closed nearby roads after a shooting. n/t

[gateley]

3. I know they didn't because an attorney we were working with told a story

about coming out of a restaurant and fumbling with his car keys and he wife got a little panicky because they were still "out there".

[Heather MC]

4. No the Beltway Sniper was all over the

Maryland DC, VA area, he was not in one city one neighborhood.

I live in NoVA it would have been impossible to shut down the entire Area.

We went about our lives, i do think schools stopped all out door activities. And people sat in their car when they got gas.

[cthulu2016]

8. Is the DC area so much bigger than Boston?

[Heather MC]

12. When you add in Maryland and VA yes

Maryland, DC, And NoVA are deeply interconnected. The Sniper was not just in DC infact most of his victims were in Maryland and VA

[godai]

9. Yes, I definitely sat in my car while getting gas. n/t

[HipChick]

10. I'm in NOVA

I remember they had roadblocks...but no shutdown....

the only that shuts this area down is the mention of 1inch of snow...

[Heather MC]

16. And Two drops of rain LOL

[HipChick]

22. LMAO!

The summer storms are already hear...it was rock and rolling tonight..

[Heather MC]

23. It just started pouring down

I have a race Tomorrow, i was going to get My registration packet tonight, but now i am like screw it. Pick it up at the race

[HipChick]

25. Actually..that might be the Tornado I got an Tornado warning earlier

[Heather MC]

27. There is too much pollution in Arlington for a Tornado to survive

ha ha

[SoCalDem]

26. Out here they fire up the Mega Ultra SuperDooper Dopler helicopter

all the weather people take to the streets with umbrellas & Gorton's Fisherman rain gear, and spread mass panic at the very thought of a 2 inch rain

[Heather MC]

29. The funny thing is every car accident I have ever been in

Has been a sunny perfect day. I notice when the weather is pretty people start ramming into each other.

[justiceischeap]

5. Wikipedia has the info you're looking for

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltway_sniper_attacks

Fear quickly spread throughout the region as news of the shootings spread. Many parents went to pick up their children at school early, not allowing them to take a school bus or walk home alone. Montgomery County Public Schools, District of Columbia Public Schools, and private schools went into a lockdown, with no recess or outdoor gym classes. Other school districts in the area also took precautionary measures, keeping students indoors.

Of course, this wasn't a terrorist attack...

[cthulu2016]

6. It did not

[Voice for Peace]

7. no shutdown. I remember feeling panic every time I was on the road and a white van appeared.

they thought the sniper was in a white van.. turned out not.

[Logical]

11. Scary I bet. n-t

[Voice for Peace]

15. it was scary, but even at the time I knew my fear was disproportionate

and being fed by msm.

[kelliekat44]

13. No. People self-quaranteened by staying home in specific areas and away from gas stations. nt

[rightsideout]

14. I remember people teasing me about my white Astro Van

At first, it was believed the shooters were using a white Astro mini van. I owned two of those at the time and friends were teasing me about it.

But I don't remember the area being locked down. The area affected was rather large with shootings in Virginia south of DC to Bowie, Maryland, north of DC.

[cthulu2016]

17. I actually, to be helpful, told two fellow shoppers at CVS that

I would break cover for my car and they could go for their cars right after me, with me drawing fire.

It's not that there was fire, but they were so scared to run across the parking lot that they couldn't do it, so I was bucking them up with "they cant get us all"

For real. It was that bad. I almsot advised them to "not bunch up" like it was D-Day.

And I did find myself zigzagging and bobbing all that month.

(The FBI agent shot was in what I considered "my" parking spot at home depot. So familiar to me that when that shooting broke I was yelling at the TV that the cops were looking in the wrong place -- that the shot had to have come from the school parking lot way over on the other side of rte 50)

[qanda]

18. That was the most terrifying time

I get anxious just thinking about it.

[s-cubed]

19. No. The shootings occurred over a wide area

For a number of days. Not every day had an attack and there was no way to predict where they were or where they would attack next.

[ecstatic]

20. I don't get posts like this

Apples and oranges. Sniper case was pretty isolated to Maryland and was moreso a local law enforcement issue; the recent bombing has national security implications. We have to find out what's up with this guy and who (if anyone) he's working with. I won't feel comfortable at another high profile event until that part is cleared up.

[11 Bravo]

24. Isolated to Maryland?

One woman was killed in Falls Church, VA, at a Home Depot parking lot in which I have parked many times. Another was murdered near Fredericksburg, well south of DC. Yet another was killed in Ashland, VA, even farther south of DC. They were most assuredly not "pretty isolated to Maryland".

[ecstatic]

32. I should have been more specific.

The metro DMV area and surrounding suburbs. I know it must have been extremely scary time!

[Puzzledtraveller]

33. I have a theory

If the Boston suspects were positively ID'd as being "white" right winger militia christian fundies these people would be totally behind a lock down, martial law, whatever it took to bring them in.

[Mike Daniels]

21. Life went on but you're talking a spread out metro area

Not a tightly compressed series of neighborhoods in a small perimeter.

I went to a rock concert in DC during that time but I was on edge during the time between the end of the show and being able to grab a cab home.

[Neurotica]

28. Yes, Little League and recess were cancelled for a month

My older son was in early elementary school at that time. The baseball season (and other fall sports) were cancelled and the kids were not allowed out for recess.

I remember taking my kids to a park one afternoon. This park was always filled with kids, but there was no one there that day. People did not stay outdoors long and did not make unnecessary trips to stores.

[Puzzledtraveller]

30. Seriously, more of these posts?

I don't understand it at all and I'm more apt to decry the state overstepping or overreacting on just about anything but the response and the measures taken were and are totally appropriate to the circumstances. What the hell, what have some of you all been drinking?

[DCBob]

31. no.. but we were certainly freaked out for several weeks..

especially when filling up at gas stations.

[lynne]

34. It didn't shut down but the situation wasn't the same -

- there wasn't a known subject. There wasn't a police chase or active manhunt to deal with.

Most every white van in the region was stopped several times a day, to the point where contractors with white vans couldn't get any work done. Schools modified their daily schedules, eliminating all outside recess. Children were run to and from the buses through a gauntlet of school teachers shielding them. We were advised to run "zig-zag" into stores from parking lots as we'd be less likely to be hit and - yes - I actually did that once. We were told to avoid getting gas at any station near an interstate and to either go into the store or stay in our car when we gassed up. I was getting gas at obscure little stations tucked into old neighborhoods and standing in the store as the car filled.

But this is different as they are in pursuit of the subject and they know it's him and that he's armed. That never occurred during the DC Sniper situation. He was captured while parked at a rest stop at night.