There is a "heightened alert" - not sure what colour that would be - this weekend in our local neighbourhoods of Wazir and Taimani. Lots of intel about plans for a compound attack. I am the warden at RAMPUP East Guest House #2 for tomorrow AM's “compound attack” drill. Got my pots and pans ready to run through the house rousing people from their rooms and shepherding them onto the roof. Once counted they will be ferried across to Guest House #1 on the newly constructed inter guesthouse bridge.
The bridge is a tasteful thing - artistic bamboo designed to "not draw attention to the compound." It has a colourful history too. RAMPUP’s engineering and security departments battled for months to have their respective designs selected. In the end the low-cost rapid-deploy option from security was the winner. Lots of bad blood over that one - fortunately we have no engineers in Guest House #2 who might try to upset the drill protocol by refusing to cross the bridge.
It is after all not "up to code."
Jul 8, 2011
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