Sigh, encore
Jul. 9th, 2005 05:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienSecurity Alert Closes Birmingham
On a Saturday night, naturally, when the clubs are in full swing.
It sounds like a false alarm, maybe a fake device or a stray bit of luggage controlledly-exploded. I hope so. I do hope so. I spent a lot of years in Brum, and I still think of it as home in some ways and have good friends there.
This reminds me a lot of the 1996 IRA campaign -- a fairly small number of actual bombs and lots and lots of false warnings and precautionary evacuations wearing on everyone's already taut nerves. Central Birmingham had its share of bad things happening a couple of rounds before that, of course, so the awareness and preparedness will be there.
Time for another cup of tea.
On a Saturday night, naturally, when the clubs are in full swing.
It sounds like a false alarm, maybe a fake device or a stray bit of luggage controlledly-exploded. I hope so. I do hope so. I spent a lot of years in Brum, and I still think of it as home in some ways and have good friends there.
This reminds me a lot of the 1996 IRA campaign -- a fairly small number of actual bombs and lots and lots of false warnings and precautionary evacuations wearing on everyone's already taut nerves. Central Birmingham had its share of bad things happening a couple of rounds before that, of course, so the awareness and preparedness will be there.
Time for another cup of tea.
