****. I missed this by a day!!! I'm arriving to DC tomorrow morning (I go to school there). Fortunately all of my friends there are okay, at least from what I can tell from Facebook.
I will say, though, that I 'm kinda sad I missed it...
I'm originally from Peru, so I've lived through a few of these (and slept through several more), to the point that they're kinda exciting by now. And since I haven't been through one since leaving Peru, I sorta miss them... They make me a bit nostalgic