My last flight was a total success. I left Chicago at 7:55pm and landed in Raleigh at 10:20 pm, right on time. I was thrilled since I knew I had an hour and a half drive back to Greenville and didn’t want to be heading back any later. I got my luggage and jumped on the bus that takes me to the parking lot where my car is. If you park in this particular lot a couple of miles away it only costs $6 a day and a bus picks you up and drops you off in a timely fashion, well it usually does.
I took a seat on the bus, the doors closed, we started to pull away from the curb, and then the driver stopped and backed up again. A few minutes later she made an announcement that there was an airport emergency and that traffic in and out of Purple Lot 3 (of course where I was parked) was indefinitely suspended. First of all, indefinitely is an intense word when all you want to do is go home. You can imagine how the passengers on the bus reacted. I checked my blackberry and found out from Raleigh’s local news station that there possibly was a shooting at the gas station across the street from the parking lot. All surrounding roads were shutdown because the suspects ran into a wooded area nearby and were still on the loose (I found out the next day someone had tried to carjack two employees leaving the gas station).
I got on the bus at 10:30, by 11:00 we were still sitting there, at 11:15 they were counting how many passengers had parked cars in that particular lot, at 11:45 I caught a break. A police car was going to escort buses back to the parking lot, we were to get into our cars, and exit the lot through a special entrance. Check out the video below to see what happened from there.
Although I had to wait 1hr and 15min. I eventually got out of the parking lot, the only good part was I got to skip out on my bill. So a heads up to travelers, just because your flight lands on time, doesn’t mean you’re in the clear, because the trip isn’t over until you get into your car…lesson learned.
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