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saveourearth2018-09-22 09:21 am
ourearth) wrote in saveourearth2018-09-22 09:21 am
Grandma's less pleasant memorabilia [mingle]
Date: 24-27th of September
Characters: Everyone!
A few weeks ago, they started building at the very end of the High Street. They're tearing down one of those ugly houses that were built after the war to replace all the buildings that had been destroyed in air raids, which Mossgate, being a coastal town with a significant harbour at the time, saw a lot of.
It's not an exciting rebuild in itself - Premier Inn is building a hotel to have a foot in Mossgate's reviving tourist industry. It is, however, kind of exciting to see new buildings, as there hasn't be much building activity on the High Street since the recession hit.
Or, well, it certainly causes some excitement. Because one of the typical hazards of building foundations in this area strikes: You tend to either hit Roman ruins, in which case you need to let the archaeologists have a go at it before you can continue - highly annoying for the builder. Or you hit a WW2 bomb, which needs to be defused and removed before you can continue - highly annoying for everyone who lives, works or shops nearby.
In other words, around 11am of the 24th, anyone within a certain distance of the bomb will be evacuated indeterminately while the experts come in and have a look at the bomb. So far, so annoying. The constables say that it shouldn't last longer than two days.
Due to the location and size of the bomb, the area of evacuation includes shops, a part of residential suburban Mossgate, a school, a senior residence and the town museum.
People who live nearby have to evacuate their houses and either stay with friends or relatives or bunk up in a hotel or emergency shelter in one of the local school's gyms.
Shops have to shut down and leave their goods in the hands of their security systems and the local police force.
A call for volunteers goes out to help evacuate the residents of the senior residence, as there isn't enough staff to evacuate all of them quickly enough.
Bus lines get rerouted.
Constables are pulled in from other locations and volunteers activated to send people away from the dangerous area, and tape goes up. Interested Bystanders [tm] gather and have to be argued with to make way for evacuees and professionals. Some local press gathers. Car drivers who just need to go through real quick, there's no reason to be like that Constable, don't you know who I am need to be sent away.
The excitement dies down some on the following days, though the evacuation lasts.
On the 25th, the Super announces that according to the experts the bomb should be in a state to defuse it and take it away safely.
On the morning of the 26th, a second announcement follows: No, it seems that the fuse and the bomb is too corroded to be defused, and that a controlled explosion will have to be undertaken.
Straw and other materials are brought in to pad the bomb and thus protect the neighbourhood from the detonation, other precautions are taken and preparations made, and on the 27th a controlled detonation removes the danger. But as detonated explosions go, they are still explosions, and the shock wave damages a wall of the next house, which holds McDonalds, while some of the straw catches on fire and is taken up by the sea breeze to set a roof two houses over on fire, which is the town museum. The fire department is present and quickly takes care of it, but the damage is still done.
After that, everyone is allowed to return to their houses, schools, shops, and so on.
Characters: Everyone!
A few weeks ago, they started building at the very end of the High Street. They're tearing down one of those ugly houses that were built after the war to replace all the buildings that had been destroyed in air raids, which Mossgate, being a coastal town with a significant harbour at the time, saw a lot of.
It's not an exciting rebuild in itself - Premier Inn is building a hotel to have a foot in Mossgate's reviving tourist industry. It is, however, kind of exciting to see new buildings, as there hasn't be much building activity on the High Street since the recession hit.
Or, well, it certainly causes some excitement. Because one of the typical hazards of building foundations in this area strikes: You tend to either hit Roman ruins, in which case you need to let the archaeologists have a go at it before you can continue - highly annoying for the builder. Or you hit a WW2 bomb, which needs to be defused and removed before you can continue - highly annoying for everyone who lives, works or shops nearby.
In other words, around 11am of the 24th, anyone within a certain distance of the bomb will be evacuated indeterminately while the experts come in and have a look at the bomb. So far, so annoying. The constables say that it shouldn't last longer than two days.
Due to the location and size of the bomb, the area of evacuation includes shops, a part of residential suburban Mossgate, a school, a senior residence and the town museum.
People who live nearby have to evacuate their houses and either stay with friends or relatives or bunk up in a hotel or emergency shelter in one of the local school's gyms.
Shops have to shut down and leave their goods in the hands of their security systems and the local police force.
A call for volunteers goes out to help evacuate the residents of the senior residence, as there isn't enough staff to evacuate all of them quickly enough.
Bus lines get rerouted.
Constables are pulled in from other locations and volunteers activated to send people away from the dangerous area, and tape goes up. Interested Bystanders [tm] gather and have to be argued with to make way for evacuees and professionals. Some local press gathers. Car drivers who just need to go through real quick, there's no reason to be like that Constable, don't you know who I am need to be sent away.
The excitement dies down some on the following days, though the evacuation lasts.
On the 25th, the Super announces that according to the experts the bomb should be in a state to defuse it and take it away safely.
On the morning of the 26th, a second announcement follows: No, it seems that the fuse and the bomb is too corroded to be defused, and that a controlled explosion will have to be undertaken.
Straw and other materials are brought in to pad the bomb and thus protect the neighbourhood from the detonation, other precautions are taken and preparations made, and on the 27th a controlled detonation removes the danger. But as detonated explosions go, they are still explosions, and the shock wave damages a wall of the next house, which holds McDonalds, while some of the straw catches on fire and is taken up by the sea breeze to set a roof two houses over on fire, which is the town museum. The fire department is present and quickly takes care of it, but the damage is still done.
After that, everyone is allowed to return to their houses, schools, shops, and so on.
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He refuses to follow with Russell, though. He has to stay with his Family! They need him! So he digs his paws in and refuses to follow with the dogsitter.
it's time for me to start unleashing my icons w/ dog
If only the dog would cooperate.
"Chad, chad, come on, Chad..." Russell says lowly, pulling a bit on the leash to pressure the dog into following with. "Oh my god, should I borrow some clothes? Give you something that smells like them?"
what a good icon
He barks in frustration and tries to dig his paws in even further. Why are all those humans being so unreasonable here?
that artist did a lot of very good undertale
He finally hits on a theory why the dog's being more stubborn than usual, and he leans into the house to search for a slightly-less-busy member of the family to ask, "has he ever stayed away from home for multiple days, before?"
Because he's not sure if this is panic at possible abandonment, it's not like Chad's a rescue dog, but if he's never stayed at a sitter's before...
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"...I don't think so? He's never been away during the night since I came here." Said with a rather annoyed tone. Really, why does there have to be all that barking on top of the rain in these parts...
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Last thing he needs right now is for anyone to get annoyed with him for getting in their way. But that answers that, and the hasty handoff of dog and dog supplies earlier really says this isn't the time or place to ask for things of theirs...
There's nothing for it. If Chad doesn't want to get going, he's going to have to carry the dog. Russell coils the leash around his hand slowly, tightening the slack until the dog has to be near.
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No he's not going to stand for this!
He barks even more loudly and digs his paws in even harder. No! He needs to stay with his owner and the Family!
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Finally it comes taut enough that Russell risks crouching down to gather Chad into his arms, keeping his face back in case of nippy unhappiness.
"Shh, shh, it's okay, it'll be okay, it's just for a few days! You'll hardly notice when it's over with," he keeps up a rambling encouragement as he gathers the dog.
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HE. NEEDS. TO. STAY. WITH. HIS. FAMILY! !!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!
And yes, he's barking all the way.
Nobody is coming out to check on him, though. Chad barking isn't an unusual enough experience to immediately check on him. Or even soon.
any wishes where else for this thread to go, or wrap up for a little in-flat shenanigans?
Nothing about this is ideal, really. The stressed departure is exactly what you don't want, to get a dog to settle comfortably and happily in another location, and he has no plan how he'll get dog things and dog and motor scooter back to his flat properly. Certainly he's not going to ride the scooter properly, with a wriggling and unhappy dog in tow.
They'll just have the most canine of sirens sounding, as he does his best to keep dog in hand on the trip back to the flat.
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All of them, really, but two-wheeled ones especially.