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MFF Dec 7 report
11 years ago
Theme for this post: Have a plan.
SERIOUSLY have a plan, think about what you’d do if something bad happens.
I was there. II was exiting and weird to be in the midst of… something.
Saturday night I finally had a quiet room at 11pm so I wanted to nap a little. Still dressed, I keeled over and was soon dreaming. The alarms went off but I did not wake because the speaker in the room, the one you expect to hear, wasn’t blaring, it was out in the Atrium. The Sounds of the horn and the voice became part of a dream I was having odd as it sounds, I started to dream of diffusing a bomb that had the hotel alarm going off.
Manick came in after fursuiting to shower I think. I half woke up and I think he showered. I’m foggy on events here as I know I heard something and went back to nap as I’ve been through MANY hotel fire alarms and wasn’t too convinced it was a big deal since the room speaker wasn’t blaring to get out, get to the choppa!
Manick wakes me and I ask WTF is going on? It’s about 1:20am Dec. 7. I say something like “Well, this con used to get a fire alarm pull in the old hotel every con, it’s probably nothing.” We have an atrium room on the 6th floor and he tells me he sees people leaving and firemen coming in. I say oh, crap! Well maybe something real is going down, we better GTFO!
Still waking up, I had a plan in mind in case of emergency. I knew it was cold so had my Jacket, with my car keys and wallet in it, in a spot to grab and go. And that’s how it went down. Slipped on shoes, jacket, grabbed a few cigars and the video camera off the table and out we went.
I we entered the stairs and even though we didn’t know a stairway was involved we were sure there was no smoke or anything else in our ESCAPE ROUTE before heading down.
Outside we just went where told. I tried to get people to sing Xmas carols but people weren’t having it so I recorded video. I received a text from a roomie, Jack that he was taken to a hospital and thought he would be OK. So I was worried a little.
Eventually we were told we could go into the convention center, set up for a dog show >>IRONY<< and milled about being asked to move deeper and deeper into the building.
I lost Manick and found Aldot and Jeffrey. Aldot pointed out how the most drama from this would be the dog show people complaining people sat in their folding camp chairs. LOL true I think!
Aldot also said hey, let’s get an Uber and go somewhere. I knew it would be hours so we agreed to walk to Denny’s. It was a mile in the cold and we sat there and followed Twitter until we saw the all clear and Uber’d it back.
Upon returning, we saw the Germans (BBF, TIllikum, Sheppy, so many others!) were all drinking beer and relaxing so we partied until about 7am, when we decided to get a little sleep. Jack came back and I could relax. A few hours of sleep later we resumed normal con partying!
The hotel and con staff were awesome! They deserve many hugs and drinks next con!
SERIOUSLY have a plan, think about what you’d do if something bad happens.
I was there. II was exiting and weird to be in the midst of… something.
Saturday night I finally had a quiet room at 11pm so I wanted to nap a little. Still dressed, I keeled over and was soon dreaming. The alarms went off but I did not wake because the speaker in the room, the one you expect to hear, wasn’t blaring, it was out in the Atrium. The Sounds of the horn and the voice became part of a dream I was having odd as it sounds, I started to dream of diffusing a bomb that had the hotel alarm going off.
Manick came in after fursuiting to shower I think. I half woke up and I think he showered. I’m foggy on events here as I know I heard something and went back to nap as I’ve been through MANY hotel fire alarms and wasn’t too convinced it was a big deal since the room speaker wasn’t blaring to get out, get to the choppa!
Manick wakes me and I ask WTF is going on? It’s about 1:20am Dec. 7. I say something like “Well, this con used to get a fire alarm pull in the old hotel every con, it’s probably nothing.” We have an atrium room on the 6th floor and he tells me he sees people leaving and firemen coming in. I say oh, crap! Well maybe something real is going down, we better GTFO!
Still waking up, I had a plan in mind in case of emergency. I knew it was cold so had my Jacket, with my car keys and wallet in it, in a spot to grab and go. And that’s how it went down. Slipped on shoes, jacket, grabbed a few cigars and the video camera off the table and out we went.
I we entered the stairs and even though we didn’t know a stairway was involved we were sure there was no smoke or anything else in our ESCAPE ROUTE before heading down.
Outside we just went where told. I tried to get people to sing Xmas carols but people weren’t having it so I recorded video. I received a text from a roomie, Jack that he was taken to a hospital and thought he would be OK. So I was worried a little.
Eventually we were told we could go into the convention center, set up for a dog show >>IRONY<< and milled about being asked to move deeper and deeper into the building.
I lost Manick and found Aldot and Jeffrey. Aldot pointed out how the most drama from this would be the dog show people complaining people sat in their folding camp chairs. LOL true I think!
Aldot also said hey, let’s get an Uber and go somewhere. I knew it would be hours so we agreed to walk to Denny’s. It was a mile in the cold and we sat there and followed Twitter until we saw the all clear and Uber’d it back.
Upon returning, we saw the Germans (BBF, TIllikum, Sheppy, so many others!) were all drinking beer and relaxing so we partied until about 7am, when we decided to get a little sleep. Jack came back and I could relax. A few hours of sleep later we resumed normal con partying!
The hotel and con staff were awesome! They deserve many hugs and drinks next con!
As for having a plan: All the yes. Especially the go bag or its equivalent. Meds, wallet, keys, phone (with numbers for all roommates or at least your room captain), and warmth sound like a good start.