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Report from day one of the national emergency: Streets in Washington, DC still eerily calm. No sign of anything unusual, really.
I'm going to go down to the 7-11 and hoard bread and milk just in case.
Report from Day Two of the National Emergency in DC: woke up late; no gunfire or rioting disturbed my sleep. Electricity, gas, and water still functioning. Some worrisome cracks in civilization emerging: Metro rail service reported running with delays due to track work.
Report from Day Three of the National Emergency. Businesses, banks, and government offices closed. Local populace bravely putting a good face on situation, telling one another “this is normal on weekends”. I no longer remember what normal is.
Report from Day Four of the National Emergency: Government offices remain closed. Economy appears in danger of collapse, with local merchants forced to slash prices. Many are bitterly referring to today as “President’s Day”, openly displaying the phrase on signs in shop windows.
Report from Day Five of the National Emergency: A thin veneer of normalcy starting to return to streets of the capital. No one talks about the emergency, as if there there is tacit agreement among strangers to live in willful denial of the horrors at our doorstep.
Report from Day Six of the National Emergency: Government is shut down. Many roads impassable or too dangerous to navigate. The remaining radio stations advise that civilians take shelter. Some sort of cold, white material falling from the sky. May God have mercy on us.
Could a Wall have prevented this? We may never know. For now, we must focus on survival. I can only hope enough of us will be left to ask the question, when it is time to rebuild.
