one helicopter in particular just hovered over our house. This was about 9pm.

We live in the city, but have an enclosed courtyard and lots and lots of trees on the property. After about five minutes, an officer with a dog appeared at our gate and asked to search the yard - apparently the helicopter couldn't see through the trees well enough to determine if there was someone hiding there. We were happy to oblige - I was just about freaked out enough to ask him to check under our beds . . .

Still don't know who they were searching for or if they found them, but assume it was a fairly serious situation given the response and the amount of armament on display.

Scary stuff sometimes. Hang in there.

I'm in L.A., and while neither of my sons' schools have been locked down, certainly we've had our share of "buzz by's," hovering helicopters, etc...

And heck, actually, in my former "nicer" neighborhood (where the Ex now has the house!), one former neighbor plunged his truck into our front yard after trying to do himself in (with a gun!) in front of his Ex's house! Fun times! (Gee, hadn't thought on that on in years!)

Did they catch him?

I was in town this morning and the street right in front of the lofts was blocked off - and it looked like they were pulling up a truck out of the bayou or something. I was just going past on Allen to get to Studemont. Looked like police cars and a lot of activity ...