The Waiting Game

The ship is 275 miles off the coast, on the same longitude as New York City. The Stout and Laboon will intercept when the boat is just north of Philadelphia . That should be in roughly 8 hours. The company that owns the ship has slowed it to guarantee the meeting.

The press has finally picked up the story. I doubt they were alerted officially, but since CNN had done the story on the discovery and now the object of their attention is being escorted by a Coast Guard cutter and soon to be accompanied by two battleships makes it a little hard to ignore. At least this will make the story easier to follow with or without inside information. They aired some footage of the ship as it cruised along taken from a distance saying that the military had ordered nobody to come within three miles of the ship.

The report also included an update on the mysterious mist that was released from the scene of the initial discovery. I had not much thought about it since then, but apparently the blue mist never did disperse but instead continued to travel east as a cloud mass. If it stays together, the blue cloud should make landfall somewhere around the town on Quqertarsuaq, Greenland sometime within the next two days. I shall have to track that story through the CDC for an idea of how it applies to the situation with Eugene’s ship.

Emily called tonight. In the wake of everything else going on, calling her after our brunch completely slipped my mind. The hurt in her voice in the beginning of the call, but she was very understanding about my overwhelming concern for my colleague and personal friend. I promised to take her out to dinner in ten days, thinking that there shoulld be enough time for this situation to resolve one way or another by then.