When I saw the TMI anniversary mentioned on the national news last month, out came the stories to the family again! I, too, remember how they told us not to go outside unless absolutely necessary, and to use the tunnel. How ridiculous in hindsight! On Saturday I was working at Elby's on Carlisle Pike. No one was in the restaurant, and the employees were standing around watching everyone with their station wagons and campers, loaded and heading out of town down the Pike. We couldn't leave until the manager got ahold of Mr. Davenport, the owner, who had left with his family to the Poconos! We shut down around noon (if you remember, Elby's never closed). On Sunday my family went to Ft. Mead, MD, because my father worked for the National Weather Service, which had closed the office and moved to the regional office! I remember being so upset because for the first time in years our class was going to get to graduate on time due to no snow days, and then 3 days for TMI! But they didn't make the seniors make it up, and we graduated on schedule! FYI, I have always been accused of glowing. And my seniors (students) don't even really know what TMI is when I mention it.

I think the kids at Chernobyl Technical High School class of 1986 had it a little rougher than us.....

I also worked at Elby's on Carlisle Pike and was around for TMI. I worked 3-11. Yes i remember TMI well. I have been through 3 Hurricanes (Andrew, Hugo, Georges) the San Francisco Earthquake of 1989 and TMI and I'm still here..lol....

mark