Eventful ride home!

1. Train lost power because of a lose power wire. Sat in snow-crusted train, in the dark, as they worked to “fix the wire.” Then they taped it closed and e kept going.

Fun fact: All the power to the train is controlled by a single wire. Ride safe, Amtrak!

2. Train was dragging live wires all along the sparking rails for X miles before they tripped the safety alarm at a station in Delaware and stopped to fix those wires, too.

3. On the ride back from the station, we got caught up in a high speed cop chase! We were at a stop lightand heard the squeal of tires – a car was doing 360s towards us. It hit the median and slowed down enough that the car barely tapped us, as a cop car with lights on cut across two lanes to block the car.

We tried to get ahead of what we thought was the end of a chase, only to see a moment later that the car was passing us, the trunk ripped off the back and dragging as he sped past as going about 80, 90? The cop couldn’t keep up, and neither could the other four cop cars that sped up behind us. A few streets later we saw the collection of blue-light cop cars (nine) that had finally pulled the car over. The news has yet to mention this, which sort of surprises me.

I have been eating cookies since the moment of arrival, though, which does wonders for the nerves.