UPDATE: My daughter made it home safely from her job in Boston.

[Baitball Blogger]

She's home, so hopefully that's a safe place.

Thanks for all the good vibes.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Good vibes for your daughter, my dear Baitball Blogger!

I hope so much that she will be safely home and very soon...

[Baitball Blogger]

2. This is not the kind of call I wanted to get.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I hear that...

[Baitball Blogger]

5. She said the good thing is that most people are home today.

Some kind of special vacation day.

[avebury]

17. Patriot's Day -

A holiday in Mass. and Maine.

[Baitball Blogger]

22. I'm learning all about it.

Also, that it was not such a good thing because children were free to attend the marathon since they weren't in school.

[In_The_Wind]

4. Sending good vibes to your daughter and everyone in Boston!

[Baitball Blogger]

6. Appreciate it.

[Kali]

7. thoughts

for you both, stay calm

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Fortunately, I'm on emotional delay.

Bad news is, that if she doesn't call back within the hour I will probably start breaking out in a sweat.

[Kali]

9. it seems to be over and specific to the marathon

at least from the current reporting, so if she is delayed it is probably only traffic.

wow, I was catching up in the host forum and went to the latest page...can't beleive I missed it while I was "here" I get almost all my news from DU.

[edbermac]

10. Used to work a block away some years back, could see the finish line out the window.

Ah, shit...

[Baitball Blogger]

11. Can you tell from the replay on the t.v. if you would have been affected?

[edbermac]

16. Doubtful

The finish line is to the left of this pic, I was in the building behind the church, midway up.

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[Baitball Blogger]

13. HI MFM!

Thank you for dropping in. She's safe at home. I already told her to keep an eye on her neighbors.

[MiddleFingerMom]

14. I'm very glad she's safe. (I've just given up on hoping for replies to my OP's.... not everything.)

[Baitball Blogger]

15. I've noticed a major downturn in replies, too.

I don't think the Lounge ever got back to where it once was.

[Phentex]

18. I'm happy to hear it...

and relieved for you!

[Sekhmets Daughter]

19. Your relief must be enormous!

I missed your earlier post... As a parent I would have been agonizing right along with you. Here's hoping she continues to remain safe, and you can hang onto your sanity until this has passed.

[Baitball Blogger]

23. I reminded her that the terrorists are still at large.

If they are on the run, who knows where they'll turn up so be aware of the people around her.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

24. Great advice...

the young can be oblivious to their surroundings. I will be thinking of both of you until you know all is perfectly well.

[Moondog]

20. Good.

I haven't lived up that way for over 25 years. But if I still did, I would have been there today.

[nolabear]

21. Thank goodness.

[DFW]

25. Sighs of relief are permitted! And are not overly dramatic, either

One day, back in 1996, I cancelled a morning appointment in Brussels, from which I would have returned to Düsseldorf on the early afternoon commuter plane. Instead, my wife had promised to take our daughters and some of the their friends (ages 11 to 13 at the time) to an amusement park in Holland. I volunteered to drive, cancelled Brussels, and put it off a day. That afternoon, right at the time I should have been in the customs area of the airport, a fire broke out in the arrivals area, burning up much of the electrical wiring, and setting free so much dioxin that nearly twenty people died on the spot. Had I been there that day, I might well have been one of them.

Never EVER frown on fate when it smiles on you!