As many of you know, the President is on a three day bus tour of several midwestern states. He started his tour with a town hall meeting in Cannon Falls, MN which is a very quiet little farming community. After he left Cannon Falls, he was going to Iowa. On his way south, he unexpectedly stopped in my town which is another small farming community, and I got to see his motorcade.
This is how it happened:
During the summers when the weather is good I often walk instead of driving to get around. So yesterday afternoon I stopped at my local grocery store to get a couple of frozen food items. I was walking home and when I got by the local post office I noticed several cars were suddenly pulling up beside me at the curb. I looked more closely at these cars and noticed that they were unmarked police cars with their red and blue lights flashing. At the same time I saw a few highway patrol cars pulling into the post office parking lot, and another one blocked off the intersection. All these cars had their lights flashing and there was a sense of urgency. I was waiting at the curb with one other person who was out jogging when the President's motorcade came down the street. It was quite large and impressive, I saw more unmarked cars, two large buses with blacked out windows, an ambulance, and at least 50-60 more highway patrol cars. All of these vechiles had flashing red and blue lights. President Obama was probably in one of the busses, but I couldn't actually see him because the windows were so dark.
I heard the police were scanning people going into a local cafe, so that's where he was going. If I would have known what was happening, I would have planned my time differently, so I would have had more of a chance to actually see him. One thing that was really strange was that we didn't even get local media coverage of this visit.
Just wanted to share
This is how it happened:
During the summers when the weather is good I often walk instead of driving to get around. So yesterday afternoon I stopped at my local grocery store to get a couple of frozen food items. I was walking home and when I got by the local post office I noticed several cars were suddenly pulling up beside me at the curb. I looked more closely at these cars and noticed that they were unmarked police cars with their red and blue lights flashing. At the same time I saw a few highway patrol cars pulling into the post office parking lot, and another one blocked off the intersection. All these cars had their lights flashing and there was a sense of urgency. I was waiting at the curb with one other person who was out jogging when the President's motorcade came down the street. It was quite large and impressive, I saw more unmarked cars, two large buses with blacked out windows, an ambulance, and at least 50-60 more highway patrol cars. All of these vechiles had flashing red and blue lights. President Obama was probably in one of the busses, but I couldn't actually see him because the windows were so dark.
I heard the police were scanning people going into a local cafe, so that's where he was going. If I would have known what was happening, I would have planned my time differently, so I would have had more of a chance to actually see him. One thing that was really strange was that we didn't even get local media coverage of this visit.
Just wanted to share
Bet there were even security helicopters too.
