Sealed in freshness

[mbarrick]

We can't go to Sanctuary tonight. Why? Because Elaine and I are sealed in the apartment against an impending toxic chemical threat.

Seriously:




And while, yes, this looks like something right out of Ready.gov neither terrorists nor the advance troops of the impending alien invasion have descended on the building. Rather it is time for the common areas of the building to get the same ozone treatment our apartment got the other day. Starting at midnight and running through to 5 a.m. there will be a toxic level of ozone in the hallways. If we were to go to Sanctuary tonight we would have leave by 11 p.m. or so else be denied entry to the building, so it just isn't worth it.

Comments

holy shit!!

[lady-maleficent.livejournal.com]

wow! that is fucking crazy!! like straight out of E.T. or something! good luck peeps! i hope you all are ok! on another note, how did you get that picture in you entry?

Re: holy shit!!

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

You need to put the picture somewhere else and link it. If you have webspace somewhere you would upload the picture there and then link with an HTML tag like <img src="http://www.yourserver.ca/maleficent/pictures/monkey.jpg">.

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

it's good practice for the impending doom...see if you can seal your house in five minutes...ha ha...that's all the time they give the people around the chemical store in america...imagine trying to seal your entire house in five minutes...the one family that was practicing couldn't even do one window in that time...but the helpful government guy said they should just keep practicing...ha ha...

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

In basic training we had to learn to get our gas masks on in three seconds. That was challenging, but in the end, doable.

But sealing up a house in five minues? LOL! Suuuuure....

Re:

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

yeh imagine trying to do it all the while thinking of the chemicals about to rain down on you...pretty funny...that's pretty impressive if you could get a gas mask on in three seconds...must've taken a great deal of practice...

[valerian.livejournal.com]

Hmm....gas masks.
Reminds me of "Bad Boy Bubby"...

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Shall I wrap Jazz and Tharsis up in celophane?

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

It wasn't as hard as learning to take a C1 rifle apart, clean it, and put it back together in the pitch dark. Yup. Useful life skills...

Re:

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

well just think if it came down to taking other things apart in the dark and putting them back together you might be able to apply it to your current life...then again most things we depend upon run on electricity and if the lights are out chances are the power is out...at least it's a skill you can boast that many of us never could...ha ha...

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

All of a sudden the phrase, "Nuke them till they glow then shoot them in the dark" comes to mind...

[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

You don't have an alien (and drew Barymore) in there do you?

(I am sure if you did whif enough of those fumes .. you would
be flying over Stanley Park with an alien in your basket in no time)

Ozone

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Huffing ozone would not be fun. It's good for killing stuff and, as it is being used in this case, forcing rapid oxidation. While oxygen is an organic chemical, this particular molecular configuration (O₃) doesn't have any even remotely pleasant properties in terms of the way it reacts with biological systems. It reacts a lot like chlorine gas (which is why it is used as a "less smelly" alternative to chlorine for killing things in water) and trying to breathe it in substantial quantities would dissolve your throat and lungs.