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[camwyn]

I have official permission from my boss to include a section in the paper I'm writing up for our business continuity meeting this afternoon on What The Company Will Do If New York City Is Rendered Inaccessible Due To Giant Monster Attack.

No, seriously, the CFO said I could.


ETA: I will write this up sometime in the next few days, along with our other disaster response plans. Right now the boss just wants something general. Specific actions can follow later, which is good, because my adrenaline's run out.

Comments

[jeditigger.livejournal.com]

Please don't forget Rodan. He always gets left out, and seriously, he's like a double-threat.

[silly-dan.livejournal.com]

And some resurrected Sumerian demon in the form of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. I mean, if anyone in your company is an expert on him...

[camwyn]

Rather to my disappointment, neither Gozer nor Zuul is actually present in the rolls of Scary Sumerian Deities Known to Archaeology. Definitely not Vinz Clortho, either. Still, should either of them turn up... well, if either of them turns up, we're located south of Central Park West, and I can be at 14 North Moore Street within fifteen minutes if I really try.

[cadhla.livejournal.com]

...dude, why aren't we married yet?

[camwyn]

Ain't been in Canada at the same time?

... say, isn't the Canada part of EPCOT center a Canadian consulate and thus legally Canuckistan soil?

... assuming, of course, that my visceral response to today's bombings doesn't make me persona non grata with the real Canadians, anyway.

[jjloa.livejournal.com]

not to this canadian it doesn't. and not to many I know, I can safely say.

[camwyn]

Thank you. *rubs at face* gah. Feeling like a rather tired idiot at this point, but thank you.

[jjloa.livejournal.com]

heh. sleep deprivation is probably not helping your reactions, so once you get some more rest hopefully you'll feel better.

but yah, it's usually good for bad reactions. Trust me - it's what I blame most of my idiocy on every day now! ;)

(hey, gotta get SOME advantages out of the apnea.)

[silly-dan.livejournal.com]

I'm sure most people had very similar reactions - especially people like me who heard the news first thing in the morning after the alarm on their clock radio went off. Don't feel too bad about it.

[batyatoon]

*hugs you*

[camwyn]

Thanks, hon. Much appreciated.

[akawil]

Can you let us know too, or is the company worried about the giant monsters finding out?

[jeditigger.livejournal.com]

This really made me laugh. Which was very welcome.

[zed42.livejournal.com]

will there be subsections for different monsters or type of monsters, or is it a more general respsonse like "panic!"?

[hangingfire.livejournal.com]

Your CFO rules.

Will the section also include contingencies for Giant Robots, or do the Giant Monster provisions cover those eventualities adequately?

(I'm put in mind of Warren Ellis's short series Tokyo Storm Warning.)

[jjloa.livejournal.com]

your CFO rocks.

yeah, it's already been said. but I had to repeat it :)

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

You will, of course, post a copy of this, right?

[aberrantangels]

She can't not post it, not now she's told us. The Eighth Amendment says so. (-8

[hugh-mannity.livejournal.com]

Yay! Mothra!!

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

You'll be prepared for all eventualities, and look super-smart when the glowing green dinosaur rises from the deep.

GODZILLA'S TWELVE STEP PROGRAM by Joe R. Lansdale

[thekit.livejournal.com]

At least you wont have to worry about Godzilla, I hear he's been clean for years.

Let's hope he doesn't fall off the wagon (http://revolutionsf.com//fiction/godzilla/01.html)

[mephron]

You have to plan for a lot of things. Not just the stompy tail-smashing fire-breath rampage, but the holy-crap-the-wind rampage and the it-just-dissolved-that rampage. (I always thought Hedorah the Smog Monster was underrated.)

Then you also have to take into account the Previously Secret Government Anti-Monster Force (Mechagodzilla, MOGUERA, Jet Jaguar) and its effects. And you know that the government won't let you sue them for saving you while destroying stuff. Er. Destroying stuff while saving you.

[ouatic-7.livejournal.com]

Speaking of holy crap, how big are Godzilla turds? There could be an immense amount of untreated effluvia in the streets.

[mephron]

Are you talking original Godzilla or post-80s-reboot Godzilla? There is a reason I ask.

Original Godzilla, well... let's just say that the word 'boxcars' starts to come to mind.

post-reboot, though, does not eat, just absorbs radiation to sustain himself, and therefore there's nothing to drop.

[ouatic-7.livejournal.com]

I was actually using Godzilla as a generic term for any ginormous beastie likely to lay "waste" to NYC.

[drharper.livejournal.com]

*squee*

If you do not post it on your LJ, I will hunt you down and tickle you until you do. :)

[thegorillawhale.livejournal.com]

(subtitles appear)

It's about time people started taking kaiju safety seriously. I hate being held up by a sloppy evac.

[camwyn]

Sir, let's be honest here; after what Roland Emmerich did with your story, you'd be completely entitled to stomp on a significant portion of New York City. I just want to make sure that neither you nor Rodan nor Mothra nor, heck, even Mr. Stay-Puft causes more incidental damage than deliberate damage. We'll get out of your way and head upstate to continue business operations elsewhere, and you can have a go at the local architecture.

I for one would be grateful if you had a go at the architecture owned by Donald Trump first, but set your own priorities.

[thegorillawhale.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's not New York I blame so much as Hollywood. I want that town so bad my fangs itch.

(And I'd like to visit Chicago, just for a change, but getting all the way up through the Great Lakes without being spotted and intercepted is a tricky prospect.)

[camwyn]

Fair enough. Either way, should you decide to pay our country a visit, I'll do my best to ensure that my part of it is prepared.

[kaikias.livejournal.com]

That's...beautiful like a very beautiful thing. I'm sure you have a lot of people wanting your job now.