Scavengers move through the city at night, salvaging equipment and recovering messages, and get back to the shelter before the sweep. The night is the one gap in the custodial schedule when anyone can move on the surface.
Their records are mostly other people's: letters, notes taped in windows, a hotel register, the last bulletin from a weather desk.
Voices on the radio
The last weather bulletin gives dawn at 06:14 and asks anyone out on the maintenance round to allow time for the journey back and the check at their home beacon. It was asked to read that twice. The final transmission from 91.3 FM tells listeners to leave time to get below ground, and says someone answered on the shelter channel the night before.
See also
Records cited
- Beyond Dawn
- Weather Desk Sign-off and For the Night Shift, recovered fragments