re: DC Snipers - anyone here live up that way during that time?

I'm originally from Maryland and used to live very close to where many of the shootings happened. I have numerous family friends who lived in the same area while it all went down and the stories they told me were just crazy. Such as having to run inside their children's school to pick them up, and running with their heads down in a zig zag pattern back to their car because no one knew where or when the next shooting would happen. The thing about it that hits home the most for me, and that I find to be most disturbing, was that these family friends weren't just your average parents with normal jobs, but they were seasoned, tenured, and fairly high ranking employees of NSA at the time, and they were always on alert and seemed to have no idea about who the shooters were or where the next attacks might occur. I grew up with these people, I even called them my uncles even though they weren't blood related, and these guys were never scared about anything EXCEPT the DC snipers. These guys served in the military through the Cold War and still mentioned they weren't as worried during that period as they were about the snipers. To me, that's some scary shite.