With the toxic cloud slowly dissipating over the lake area, and the ships slipping deeper and deeper into the lake with each passing hour conversation all over Dead End has turned to the containers. What they hold, what will happen to whats in them , and whom it belongs to.  Many of Dead End’s locals, especially those with access to anything from a kayak or canoe to a home made rafts to power boats, have been out on the lake despite the weather and toxic conditions scavenging what they can from the containers despite the DEPD’s best efforts to prevent such an event.

Perhaps that along with the health hazards are what prompted the overworked and over tired DEPD & DEFD to  decide to blow up the ships.  Of course that decision wasn’t made until late in the evening, after members of both DEFD and DEPD did what they could to salvage the medical supplies from the well labeled containers to ensure that the local hospital was able to continue it’s efforts to keep our citizens healthy and happy.  Among those kind souls were Detective Vanora Blackheat,  Sgt Cas Whitesong, and Fireman Anjel Masala & Captain Mela Dylasari-Bellic DEFD.

Once the hospital was seen to and the scavengers of the human variety cleared from the area members of the local bomb squad went in and prepared to detonate the ships.  According to sources the idea behind the idea was that once the ships were submerged the chlorine gas would no longer be an issue  and the scavengers, whom were reportedly not taking care of their own exposure concerns, would no longer endanger their own lives.  Unfortunately in the process of preparing what was to be a small explosion calculations were improperly made, likely due to exhaustion, and the ships did not simply sink to the bottom.

Around 9 pm the explosion, big enough to rock Dead End and blow the ships into bits, sent debris all over Dead End.  In the blast containers were ruptured and the entire city was showered in DVD’s, dildos, cases of rum, laptops, Ipods, clothing, medical supplies, novelty items, love dolls, chain saws and other power tools of both the sexual and nonsexual variety, Candy, cookies, 3D glasses, surgical breast implants and the parts to what is believed to be a 2014 volkswagen bug.  Many of the items were covered in pink liquid that is rumored to have been part of a shipment of hair dye meant for the local salon.  The most interesting of finds of course would be the larger than lifesized nude marble statue of Betty White which landed, upright, in the middle of cinema square. Debates as to whether to remove it or not have only just begun.

No major damage was done to any buildings within the city limits, however many owners spent several hours clearing their roofs of debris.  After several citizens called 911 to inquire as to the legality of keeping items that had rained down on their homes, cars and places of business it has been determined that maritime law will hold true and it’s essentially a case of ” Finder’s Keepers” with the shipping companies insurance providers doing all the weeping.

Kahlen Vaniva, DE Daily Editor & Reporter