OTI- Radiation contamination - Do not enter unless encased in lead.

@billg315 wrote:ALERT ALERT ALERT!!!!

The Emperor has arrived on OTI.  This setting off nuclear devices and abandoning the island all seemed like a good idea until the Emperor arrived and was exposed to the dangers of excessive radiation.

I urge, no, I implore, no, I beg my fellow OTI government officials to remediate the island and open up our shuttered facilities so the Emperor can get the treatment he seeks and get back to the Mainland in good health and sound mind. (I think the marble and granite edifice of the Hall of Justice survived the blast, but most of the thatched huts were leveled. Anyway).

Syos, can you open a temporary sanitarium facility? Like a MASH ward, maybe?

This is an extremely interesting development!

Luckily, the Sanitarium built of steel girder and concrete block with brick, did not sustain any serious damage in the nuclear blasts.Luckily the prevailing westerlies have blown all radiation out to sea and any residual radiation is being cleaned up by this method:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIBzHwGafDo

My financial wizadry of exchanging all useless FIAT paper currency for gold prior to closure and blast has come in handy paying for the clean up of the Island.The gold was safely buried in a location known only to myself.

As the staff of the OTI Sanitarium either left or was incinerated into vapor, I myself, will  have the honor of treating the Emperor in his obvious display of snow deprivation psychosis.I was hoping my Assistant Director of the OTI Sanitarium Syosnow would be available to assist me, but apparently, he too has sustained severe snow melancholia and neurasthenia.

The Emperor will be treated as the ROYALTY he is and I can assure you will be back to the Mainland in a very short time.

Here in the very final days of OTI we find salvation and recovery!

Docstox
Director of Parliament( or what's left of it)
Director OTI Sanitarium
Interim Director of OTI Radiation Remediation

Immediately upon learning that Emperor Frank was arriving on the island I ordered all former OTI Justice Department and Judicial Staff into service to begin making repairs to the OTI Hall of Justice and to expedite a reconstruction process. Unfortunately we could not complete the work before the Emperor's Advance Team arrived to conduct a pre-visit inspection. Here is some video of how that went (You can see how industrious my staff was with their use of our snow shovels during this snowless winter):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FeJbBNp6Ks

@billg315 wrote:Immediately upon learning that Emperor Frank was arriving on the island I ordered all former OTI Justice Department and Judicial Staff into service to begin making repairs to the OTI Hall of Justice and to expedite a reconstruction process. Unfortunately we could not complete the work before the Emperor's Advance Team arrived to conduct a pre-visit inspection. Here is some video of how that went (You can see how industrious my staff was with their use of our snow shovels during this snowless winter):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FeJbBNp6Ks

GREAT WORK billg in this intervention on behalf of the Emperor's mental health!!!

As interim Director of Radiation Remediation, I use this method to train my staff in the proper and improper ways to handle the dangerous blast residues on OTI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plQ7N9-4EJ0

@docstox12 wrote:As interim Director of Radiation Remediation, I use this method to train my staff in the proper and improper ways to handle the dangerous blast residues on OTI.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plQ7N9-4EJ0

Lol!!! That is fantastic. A very effective demonstration. (The baby pacifier in the car at the end was the best). Hopefully all OTI remediation workers are properly using the decontamination tents.

Just thought I'd put the old lead suit on and check things out and see if there was any shot at moving back in this year.



I guess not

@CPcantmeasuresnow wrote:Just thought I'd put the old lead suit on and check things out and see if there was any shot at moving back in this year.



I guess not

"do not enter unless encased in lead"....HILARIOUS.

I'm starting to write a new "Ode to OTI" titled "When The Sands Turn To Glass"!

@docstox12 wrote:

@CPcantmeasuresnow wrote:Just thought I'd put the old lead suit on and check things out and see if there was any shot at moving back in this year.



I guess not

"do not enter unless encased in lead"....HILARIOUS.

I'm starting to write a new "Ode to OTI" titled "When The Sands Turn To Glass"!

Doc I look forward to its release date.

@CPcantmeasuresnow wrote:

@docstox12 wrote:

@CPcantmeasuresnow wrote:Just thought I'd put the old lead suit on and check things out and see if there was any shot at moving back in this year.



I guess not

"do not enter unless encased in lead"....HILARIOUS.

I'm starting to write a new "Ode to OTI" titled "When The Sands Turn To Glass"!

Doc I look forward to its release date.

CP, I have purchased a ead suit and will visit OTI's simmering cinders for inspiration!

Glowingly yours,
Doc

I found an old ead suit in my basement.  Moth eaten, but so what.  Wow, this place is hauntingly quiet.   Eerie.  I hear a faint buzzing.  Wait its getting louder.  Like an insect about to attack.  Whoah, can it be?? Why, it's Keanu Reaves trying to reconcile the fact that he is John Wick and Bill (or Ted). Part of his face is clean shaven and the other has that creepy beard.  Nope.  But that's not the sound. Not at all. Looking around. Damn.  There is a dude called Snowdad screaming about his lost winter. Face is fire engine red.  But due to the radiation, he's actually shrunk and is now 2 feet tall.  Hnnn.  What else is here.  I see a blade of grass and a tiny flower.   Nice. Maybe there is hope yet for this cherished land.  Hold it.  I hear that insect again.  By the snowy icicles of Antarctica, its a fly with Frank's face on it!!  Freaky.  You'd think it would be Jeff Goldblum.  He's crying because he is too busy to look at snow maps.  Poor thing.  Time for a margarita.  Little poor fly.  It'll be okay.  Maybe in about 70 years, when you retire, you will be able to review those cherished maps again. Gotta go. I think there was a leftover moth in my suit. Unlike poor Snowydad, it has grown to about 80 stories. Time to head on home before I get mothrad.

I left extra days before re-entering our Island in my lead suit.Normally, I open the Island for business on October 1.However, early stirrings of winter forecasts prompted me out of my malaise to get my arse in that lead suit and get to work.My Geiger Counter curiously registers normal amounts of radiation.I trust it even though it was made in China and bought it before the tariffs kicked in at Walmart.Visual scans reveal no infrastructure damages in any sector, but the coconuts and bananas are curiously 2 to 3 times normal size, probably as a result of the radiation.Those will be tested for radiation contamination by any staff that can be enticed to return to OTI for the coming season.If not, I will dispose of them if they are contaminated in Sector 7 where a large cave exists.It's possible I could be the only one staffing OTI this winter season but I welcome back any of our capable staff who in years past did a magnificent job governing the Island.Ok, now back to the Parliament Building to take inventory for the needs of the coming season.Over and out for now.

Docstox
Director of Parliament
Director OTI Sanitarium
Opening day October 19 Anno Domani 2019

The celebratory "First Flakes On The Mainland" party is rapidly approaching according to our amazing forecasters there.I am gathering up driftwood with the skeleton staff that deigned to return to the Island this season to prepare for the beach bonfire that is part of that.Parliament has not been in session yet as there is not a quorum for any legislation.In fact, I am the leader of just myself which could lead to a streak of megalomania as I have been prone to develop on occasion when not reigned in.
Looks like cold returns to the Mainland late next week.Soon there will be a massive influx of anxiety prone and disappointed Mainlanders who all expect massive snowstorms.I will do my best to entertain them and aanlyze their psychosis at the Sanitarium and Coconut Lounge.
Over and out for now
Docstox
Director of EVERYTHING heh, heh, heh........

@docstox12 wrote:The celebratory "First Flakes On The Mainland" party is rapidly approaching according to our amazing forecasters there.I am gathering up driftwood with the skeleton staff that deigned to return to the Island this season to prepare for the beach bonfire that is part of that.Parliament has not been in session yet as there is not a quorum for any legislation.In fact, I am the leader of just myself which could lead to a streak of megalomania as I have been prone to develop on occasion when not reigned in.
Looks like cold returns to the Mainland late next week.Soon there will be a massive influx of anxiety prone and disappointed Mainlanders who all expect massive snowstorms.I will do my best to entertain them and aanlyze their psychosis at the Sanitarium and Coconut Lounge.
Over and out for now
Docstox
Director of EVERYTHING heh, heh, heh........

You're doing one hell of a job on your own. Maybe some of your best work ever. Yes there's a little megalomania involved but go with it.

You sure you're okay there Doc? The radiation levels from all the readings I've seen are still unsafe. The OTI remote just captured this image from Sector 5. Did you write this?

@CPcantmeasuresnow wrote:You sure you're okay there Doc? The radiation levels from all the readings I've seen are still unsafe. The OTI remote just captured this image from Sector 5. Did you write this?

It's probably a message sent from this scientific crew who wanted to study the effects of the radiation we were experiencing, on the insects of Sector 5.They have not contacted me with a report for a week now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TbtsUK8Alg

OTI STATUS REPORT-NOVEMBER14 ANNO DOMANI 2019
Direct from the Parliament Building:

1) Noted and increase in bookings to the OTI Sanitarium 25% as a result of excellent long range winter forecaster Isotherm on the Mainland calling for below to near average snowfall this winter.Prior long range forecasts from other Mainland sources had the populace more hopeful for much more snowfall.Indeed, Isotherm's forecast calls for above normal temperatures as well.I have managed to employ 2 more full time therapists specializing in snow disappointment syndrome, a particularly virulent form of winter depression for the snow lover.

2) Noted the return of my right arm, CP, our Director of the Treasury and to wit, the following of note for him:

3) To help defray the costs of radiation removal, I have come up with the novel idea of selling red caps with the logo MOTIHA( pronounced MO TEA HA) .The logo means Make OTI Habitable Again.The monies we generate will go into the Treasury to be handled by CP

4) Remediation of radiation completed in vital Sectors 1, 2, and 3 supervised by OTI Scientists specializing in radiation, Dr. Quark and Dr. Ray Donn.They used a novel method which cost OTI nary a cent, they sliced coconuts in half, laid them on the ground, and the radiation was absorbed efficiently.A crew with Haz Mat Suits then transported the radioactive coconuts to a final site far in sector 10, the caves by the ocean.

That is all:
I remain,
Docstox
Director of Parliament
Director OTI Sanitarium
Director Coconut Lounge

@CPcantmeasuresnow wrote:

@docstox12 wrote:The celebratory "First Flakes On The Mainland" party is rapidly approaching according to our amazing forecasters there.I am gathering up driftwood with the skeleton staff that deigned to return to the Island this season to prepare for the beach bonfire that is part of that.Parliament has not been in session yet as there is not a quorum for any legislation.In fact, I am the leader of just myself which could lead to a streak of megalomania as I have been prone to develop on occasion when not reigned in.
Looks like cold returns to the Mainland late next week.Soon there will be a massive influx of anxiety prone and disappointed Mainlanders who all expect massive snowstorms.I will do my best to entertain them and aanlyze their psychosis at the Sanitarium and Coconut Lounge.
Over and out for now
Docstox
Director of EVERYTHING heh, heh, heh........

You're doing one hell of a job on your own. Maybe some of your best work ever. Yes there's a little megalomania involved but go with it.

Thank you my good man, you are my right arm in the management and governance of this place, and just when you thought you were OUT my madness pulls you BACK IN!
Sorry to ruin any meager possibility of you having a normal life now,LOL.

Your fellow OTI Citizen
Docstox

OTI Scientific Institute Report

Unfortunately, out first attempts to initiate Operation Pac Ridge, launching rockets from Cape Coconut on OTI , to seed the upper atmosphere over the Paciific with OTI beach sand ,in order to change the ridge structure to a more favorable configuration for East Coast snow,have proven to be a dismal failure.
The OTI Bureau of Investigation is looking into possible sabotage by interests involving Rocky Mountain ski resorts.
Further bulletins will be issued as information comes in.

Video of OTI rocket failures:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k55orC687OQ

FINAL PROCLAMATION AND NOTICE OF CLOSURE

      Dear Mainland Friends,
              It is my sad duty to announce that OTI will be closing for the foreseeable future, say like 100,000 years.The radiation accident that befell us last year has kept all Mainland visitors away this winter season.The cause is the radiation, as in this most miserable of winters, we would have been deluged with guests seeking therapy for snow deprivation syndrome.I tried valiantly, but the economic collapse from lack of revenue forces me to close the Island.
     
              I could not just let it fade into obscurity without recognition of the great works helping the Mainland Public.As such, as your former Director of Parliament and Director of the OTI Sanitarium, I would like to thank the following:
First and foremost, Emperor Frank, for creating a space for OTI to operate these years and for the Administrators, especially Doc,for enabling our operation.
              Thanks to Founding Fathers Mugsy and Cp, who at the beginning help me to create our shining Island in the sea.Thanks to my right arm, CP, Director of the OTI Treasury, Syosnow, Director of the Coconut Lounge and Assistant Director of the OTI Sanitarium,Aresian, former Director of the Coconut Lounge, Math 23x7 aka Mikey, Director of the OTI Bureau of Science and Statistics, and Attorney General Billg, whose legal expertise greased the legal wheels of OTI legislature.
               I have made a memory stick of our years of operation as chronicled here on this thread and have included other OTI memorabilia, such as radiated bannanas and coconuts and other artifacts, and buried a time capsule near the OTI Parliament Building.Perhaps in the year 102,020, explorers will find it and relive the history of OTI.
              As for myself, I am leaving for other internet worlds that need my encouragement and humor.I will maintain my Mainland address for the occasional weather observation, historical anecdote or humorous bon mot.
              I wish to thank all who have visited us through the years and wish you all the very best of health, happiness and snowy winters!

DOCSTOX
Former Director of  Parliament
Former Director of the OTI Sanitarium
Proclamation dated March 15 Anno Domani 2020