Sunday, April 12, 2015
Breaking news in my backyard.
Our evening meal of "Bang Bang Shrimp" and a veggie side consisting of summer squash, tomatoes, corn, onion and garlic had been prepped...all was ready for me to watch the final hour of The Masters when I grabbed my iPad to look at work email.
John Buckner on the assignment desk had just forwarded a tweet from the Fort Lauderdale Fire Department about a plane crash and the location was two miles south of where we live.
I yelled at John to join me and he became my driver.
Would that Periscope was already developed for Android! I have an iPad with it loaded but it was on the charger. My phone was too but it had 40% so I grabbed it and left the ability to live stream behind.
We got to the corner just east of the crash and police directed us away. The WSVN live truck arrived a minute behind me and we both wended our way through the Calvary Chapel parking lot in an effort to get a closer view.
John is a good navigator in this circumstance although I don't see a "Nightcrawler" existence in our future.
Liane Morejon, the Local 10 reporter arrived moments later and took over.
John and I went home and I made dinner.
Four people died in the crash and at the end of the day, that's what I'm thinking about tonight.
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