Flashes of Panic

The local police and UMass security are bracing for a sort-of-annual party/riot at UMass, the “Hobart Hoedown” (named for the street full of student apartment buildings which usually ends up the center of the mayhem.) The Gazette printed an article on Friday quoting students suggesting that it might move to neighboring Sunderland or Hadley. Or it might not have been this weekend at all. Might be next weekend.

Last night we met an ambulance high-tailing down Route 9 towards Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton. I heard at least three more sirens before going to sleep. I was hoping they were fire engines responding to Yet Another False Alarm and not more ambulances.

I wonder if I’ll be laughing or grumbling when I read the paper on Monday.

Now playing: High Speed from Parachutes by Coldplay

Update: The newspapers are reporting a “normal weekend” in Amherst. The pot continues to simmer.