BOSTON (WHDH) - “We’re woken by the missiles coming in and we do the same old routine, we look out the window and say, ‘are the buildings on fire’?”
That’s how Stacey Schuhwerk has been living since Saturday. The Hingham native and her son Tyler were forced to take shelter in Qatar.
Iran launched a series of retaliatory strikes in response to the U.S. and Israel’s attack. The pair were on vacation at an art museum when it all started.
“It was really alarming; we started to get warning messages in Arabic and we weren’t sure what was happening,” Schuhwerk said. “Your stomach drops. I haven’t felt that feeling since 9/11.”
Schuhwerk said they raced to the hotel where they’ve been stuck ever since.
“I personally don’t like the night time because it’s scarier looking out,” Schuhwerk said. “We have a view of half of the city from our hotel room and when we hear the missiles. We look at the buildings and we’re like ‘Is there smoke? Did they hit something? What’s going on?'”
Schuhwerk said they registered the the state department for updates, but haven’t gotten any information about how to leave.
“You get put in circles with automated messages,” Schuhwerk said. “They say leave a number and they send you a text back saying ‘leave the country.’ Where are we to go? To get the message this morning from our own government to leave by commercial means. The air space is closed. There are no trains. There’s one bus from Doha to Riyadh on Sundays. It’s a seven hour bus through a barren desert with nothing and we’re hearing gas stations don’t have gas. If our own government is telling us to leave here, let us know how how do we leave.”
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