Don Muang Standoff

CNN - Reporting from the scene of the ongoing stand off, 5:20 PM BKK time

Hello again! So after about two weeks of posturing on both sides, the Red Shirts marched north today and have been engaged by government forces near Don Muang Airport (which is fortunately no longer our main airport). Eight were injured and one police officer was killed by friendly fire (at the time of this post).

Just as we heard the news at school (the fighting was only about 10 minutes from us), a huge storm hit. Thunder, lightning, wind, crap blowing everywhere -- I was sitting in my car and it was raining so hard I couldn't see the school thirty feet away. The power was out too. Before I left, a friend of mine said, "If I were a Jehovah's Witness, I would think the apocalypse is coming today!" (Frankly do not know much about Jehovah's Witnesses, but does their version of the endtimes include power outages and Red Shirts?)

Anyhow, got home fine (though traffic very bad headed north through Bangkok), and got a text message to say school was closing early for the day . . . not because of Red Shirt thing, but because there had been so much damage due to the storm! Ah, irony.