Not your typical night at the casino

My evening started out with a trip to the local casino where I had a nice dinner at the buffet. Then it was off to do some gambling where I broke even. The friends that I went with were still gambling so i was patently waiting for them. That was when our evening turned horribly bad.

It was 8:30 and I was waiting for my friends and the alarms went off. At first I didn't think much of it. There was some sort of announcement but nobody could understand what was being said and just kept playing. It wasn't until we saw people walking to the exits and the poker tables being closed that we started to wonder what was going on. Then one of the security people walked over and tiold us to cash out be the casino was being evacuated. He went on to tell us that the storm had knocked a tree over right on a propagne tank.

We left the casino where we could smell the propagne leak and hear the sirens of the approaching emergency vehicles. Since our car was parked by the valet we went over to retrieve the keys but the valet office was locked down and no one cold retrieve their keys. Instead we were all ushered across the street so we were a safe distance away. Most of us all did as we were directed but as usual there were the few looking loos that wondered around in the street to see what was going on.

After a few minutes we were ushed farther away from the casino to another building where we were able to go inside where it was warm and out of the rain. It was about 9:30 when the announcement came that the people with cars in the parking garge could leave. That still left all the people that had their cars parked by valets and all the casino employees. It wasn't for anout 45 minutes until the anouncement came that we could sign out our car keys. All the drivers got in line and signed for their keys. Since we were still at the alternate building we had to wait for the casino shuttle. By the time the Shuttle picked us up and took us back to pick up our cars it was 10:30.

It wasn't quite the way that any of us expected to spend our evening.