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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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She looks away from Sadie to look herself up and down.
Nope. Nothing.
Nothing that Kitty can see at least. To Sadie on the other hand the difference will be quite obvious - Kitty's eyes are now yellow, with slitted pupils, very much like Sadie's own.
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"Kitty... Your Echo..." She pulls out a pocket mirror from her handbag and passes it to Kitty. "You're going to need to wear coloured contact lenses to hide your eyes in public."
Getting her phone, Sadie brings up the Amazon app. She triggered this Echo, she would absolutely help Kitty protect herself and get her those contacts.
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But wait. If her echo has something to do with her eyes... she reaches up and runs her fingers around her eyes and over her eyelids, trying to figure out what's going on, before remembering that.
Hey! Phones have mirror mechanics. Not that she has a particularly expensive phone or anything, but it is a smartphone (so she can whatsapp her grandmother, essentially, that's why she got it) and thus she can...
Here we go. She peers at the screen and then a wide grin spreads over her face. "Cool." She'll complain about how inconvenient this is in a moment. Right now, she's just fascinated by her own eyes. "I'm a cat!"
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"I wonder if we're both turning into the same thing..." Sadie proposes as she brings up the brown coloured contacts and orders them for Next-Day delivery.
"You're going to have to hide them when out and about. I would lend you my spare pair of contacts but we don't have the same eye colour so I've ordered you a set of brown ones. If we meet back here same time tomorrow I can show you how to put them in and take care of them?" Sadie offers.
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Can she really hide eyes as obvious as these, even if just for a night?
"I could tell them that I'm staying over at my grandma's, but she can't see my new eyes, either..."
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This is shaping up to be a serious problem.
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"And those are the only places to stay?" She asks for clarification.
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So it has to be a place they trust, and then I have to really be there and nowhere else," and that just makes everything less flexible.
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"I think I have an idea... There's a costume shop in town, they might have coloured contacts. They won't be as nice as the ones I've just ordered but they should be able to tide you over until then."
Sadie clips Amber back onto the lead and does the same before Tigger before offered Kitty the lead." You can walk him there if you'd like?"
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But, there is one actually troubling question, and she needs to address that at some point. Better sooner than later probably. "Are contacts expensive?" Because she... doesn't really reliably have any money. She gets a few bucks to spend every so often, but those occasions are pretty random and lack reliability.
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Sadie glances down at Kitty, "The ones I've order for you are." She admits to Kitty, "They're some of the best for comfort which you're going to need when you're wearing them almost all day. Don't worry about the cost, I'll sort it for you okay Kitty?"
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But.
Is there a catch of some kind?
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Sadie holds out a hand for Kitty to shake with an accompanying grin." Us cat girls have to stick together right?"
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She nods, takes Sadie's hand, and shakes it.
"Do you think we're becoming the same thing?"
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"I honestly don't know. If we are then we aren't getting things in the same order. Maybe until we know for certain one way or the other we let each other know what we get from these incidences so that we can be on the lookout and be prepared for that change."
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