I started this blog with no thoughts on where or how it would progress. This morning, sitting here in Bangkok, with a possible civil war about to erupt, I decided it might be a good place to express how the situation my family and I living through is effecting us.
Yesterday afternoon while watching the TV (CNN etc), it became apparent that the news updates being televised was hours old. Some even showing video clips from days ago. As the deadline for the protesters to disperse approached, things started happening.
My son returned home excitedly describing what he had seen in the area around our apartment. Soldiers massing along a major road, but some distance from the "hot zone". Army SWAT trucks grouping just outside our building. His news what somewhat disturbing to say the least.
I search the internet using Google to try and discover what was happening. Everything I found was hours and even days old. I finally stumbled onto a tweet from Richard Barrow. Cranking up twitter, I went through his posts and discovered a whole network of people who have been posting updates on the growing turmoil.
All afternoon and into the night I maintained a watch on these tweets trying to keep abreast of the situation. My Twitter "following" group expanded as the time flew by.
Some of my friends back in Australia had been showing concerns of the "going ons" up here, so I started to retweet and post some of my own. I started to feel I was contributing, be it in a small way, to the whole process of keeping people informed.
Anyway, so now it's morning and all appears quiet and calm. I hope it remains this way. I would like to thank all the dedicated people that helped us through the night. If you are interested in these tweets, you can follow me on http://twitter.com/Darryl_Benson.
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