"Leave everything behind!"

My first (and hopefully) last emergency evacuation of an airplane occurred yesterday. The above picture is of the plane after we had exited in haste. Because I already had my bag in my hands, I didn't listen to the flight attendant's instructions to, "leave everything behind". As a result, I had my camera and decided to commemorate the moment.

Fortunately, no one was hurt, the engine merely overheated (no fire!), and we were on our way on a different plane within 3 hours. I got to the conference I'm currently at in plenty of time to worry about my presentation.