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Yeah: that aspect of things will probably be the only success story: they
learned a lot from the Anna Amalia fire which - all things considered - was
handled pretty well:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2831391,00.html
now, belatedly, Cologne seems to be getting around to checking on what else
might have "settled" since they did their last major survey, which was done
before the subway work started; I mean: major subterranean construction
project & nobody monitoring what was going on above ground (except in
obvious cases, like a church tower that started leaning over the same street
a few years back...)
heads will roll...
& as for bunkers: an interesting idea, but I'm not sure if there are many
around Cologne; Germany tended to convert basements into "air raid shelters"
which were of limited use during the big incendiary raids on Hamburg &
Dresden (firestorms); Cologne was pretty well flattened during the war, &
since then basements downtown have been pushed deeper; I don't think there
are any bunkers (the only ones I'm aware of are combination bunkers & air
defence towers: 4-5 storey concrete monoliths that were just too big & solid
to remove after the war: one in Bonn & one on the other side of Cologne; as
most of these are now "monuments" in their own right, there's always a need
to try to put them to some kind of meaningful use, but there's only so much
you can do in a big concrete box...)
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I hope they find access to freeze driers, as that is how to remove the wet
from the paper.
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