ladyofastolat

Eek! We've just been phoned up and told not to leave our premises because of a bomb!

EDIT: Midday: It's a 40 foot long pipe bomb, whatever that is. It's located about 500 yards away. *nervous*

EDIT 2: And I've got no lunch today! I was depending on the food van, but that won't be coming since all the roads are blocked.

EDIT 3 (12.15): It's a World War 2 bomb, apparently. I'm sure we're in no danger, or they'd have evacuated us - though quite where we could go, I don't know, since the only road out of the estate takes us a whole lot closer to the bomb. We'd have to go down to the river, I suppose, then get evacuated by boat. Starvation is the main danger facing us. The few who were organised enough to bring a packed lunch are looking very smug. We foodless masses might need to launch raiding parties and start some looting.

EDIT 4 (13.30): Food. Food. Want food. Feel weak. Hungry... Apparently the bomb squad is still on the mainland. "It will be a good few hours," we've been told. At least I can walk home, though it will require some climbing of walls to get out via a back route. To the two people who only work mornings and are currently stuck, the whole thing is suddenly a whole lot less exciting.

EDIT 5 (13.35): ETA on bomb squad: 5 p.m.

EDIT 6 (13.45): "We hope it will all be sorted out by tomorrow morning, but we can't promise." Where is this bomb squad coming from, anyway? I thought these guys had super-cool helicopters, and all. I now have a vision of a heavily-armed SWAT team waiting for the ferry. "We're all booked up, I'm afraid, but we might be able to get you on the 5 o'clock."

EDIT 7 (15.25): They now say we can leave, "as long as you don't come back." "Do you mean you want us to leave and not come back?" I said hopefully, but, no. We're still here and aren't supposed to go outside. We can leave when we need to leave, but all our mobile libraries etc. can't get back to us. I'm not sure why they've decided that the road is passable in one way, but is CERTAIN DEATH! in the opposite direction.

EDIT 8 (15.45): The local newspaper website clearly wishes it could show exciting pictures of bomb squads, or HUGE EXPLOSIONS! Instead, it shows us... an empty road! with, in the far distance, a police car! and, in the foreground, enormous and looming and thrilling and exciting... a "road closed" sign! It's the most exciting thing I've ever seen!

EDIT 9 (16.00): Someone found some old Cup-a-soups in one of their desk drawers. Starvation is averted. Okay, so it's not very much averted - it's only Cup-a-Soup, after all - but it might persuade the wolf to back ever so slightly away from the door.

EDIT 10 (17.35): Am home! Am free! Have food in me! The cordon is still in place, so the drama is still ongoing, but they let us out.

And in all the excitement I quite forgot that, just before the drama started, I was chuckling over a book called "Basic ear training," and about an email recounting boss's boss's boss's meeting with "representatives of Mankind," and had meant to do a quick post about it at lunch time. Also about fire-fighters.

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lil-shepherd.livejournal.com

What it is is nasty.

I presume you have correct drills for this. You should be moved across the building away from the bomb, and evacuated ASAP through whatever doors are opposite to it.

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ladyofastolat.livejournal.com

We've been told to stay put. I presume they've evacuated the workplaces nearer the site, but must have deemed us far enough away to stay here. "It may be some time," they say.

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