The Winding River Project

[jmyers2043]

The mayor of Winding River admitted today that the meteor strike in the remote areas of Milton County was a staged event to promote tourism. "We were hoping to construct the Maxis Tourist Trap reward and charge Sims to see the site" said Mayor B. "We're now looking for other ideas to raise funds". 

"I wish they would have staged the event closer to my house" says local resident Albert Flanders. "I would have opened a lemonade stand at the road".

Betty Key is taking the news in stride. "Why be so down and out about the hoax? Can't I just take my grand kids to the site and just enjoy the hole in the ground for what it isn't?"
 
Harold Walker isn't amused. "It makes you wonder what other ruses those dastardly politicians are trying to pull on us."



Good Luck with the meteor, Fred


- Jim

[bat]

Great work on another wonderful update!
Looking forward to the next one...

[frostwolf]

Wow. I disappear for a while, and everything seems to happen while I'm away. Looking good so far, Fred.

[mrbisonm]

Thanks guys, I kinda got worried there a little not having had many comments on my last updates. Great to see ya all again.
Jim, great *Add-on* to the story.


Here's a little update on my current BATting, Paul Donovan's new Warehouse Outlet in Access, Special on Tools!

Fred

[NASCAR_Guy]

Love the building

[FrankU]

There can't be enough of this kind of warehouses. The industrial areas I know of are stacked with these kinds of nondescript buildings. Nice Batting!

[KoV Liberty]

These last updates have just been great! I especially love the warehouse. Keep it up Fred.

[danielcote]

Cool warehouse!

[frostwolf]

That warehouse looks great. Is it on the exchange?

[mrbisonm]

Thanks for the comments of the warehouse. I don't know if I should upload it, because it is not 100% of my own work. I downloaded a nontextured simple model that I heavily modified and changed to my liking, because I needed such a building quickly for this update and I couldn't find the time to start mine from scratch. Anyways, I might and explain it in the description....should I ?

Ok, here's another update of the WRP.


Update 71
             


Friday, April 6th, 1967
                           Today on this date ... then:

1853 – The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
1972 – Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1889 – Birth of Charlie Chaplin, English actor and filmmaker (d. 1977)
1921 – Birth of Peter Ustinov, English actor (d. 2004)
2002 - Death of Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)




«« "It's all underground, he said a week before he had his accident," Steve Gibson told John Gabber when they all met at Barby's Biergarten on april 16th, " I would have never thought that he would die the week after. He was talking about some documents and plans that he found on the trashsite and that were showing things about the long and deep underground passways at the army's base and that the two towers are there to get down there, it's like the inside of a dome below ground he said and it's the size of almost a whole town and that it reaches underneath the river and that's why they cut off the river upstream."
"Size of a town? But what about the Porolium gaz that is supposed to be leaking around the area?" John asked while Mike Allheimer and Alex Puto were all eyes and ears listening to what Gibson had to say.
"I only know that he told me that the whole Porolium gaz was just an excuse to build all these buildings there and keep the public away from the site. There is no Porolium in that area at all said Gerry Hevlier and he told me that everything is explained in his book. Remember the two bodies of the highway workers that were found nearby?...Well, they were also just an excuse, Hevlier told me, a simple hoax and make believe of the government, to hide the findings of something I don't know what underground. "
"So when you asked Gerry where he got all his information from, he said that it was all from the papers he found at the dumb in West River? Why would they throw such precious and secret papers away at a small dump like this instead of destroying them right there at the base?" Mike asked.
"That I don't know, Hevrier only told me that he got all his knowledge from these documents taht were hidden up in some foodbags and that he has them hidden somewhere with his book, but I don't know where though. When he died in that accident, which by the way I doubt that it actually was an accident, the SBI (Simland Bureau of Investigations) had his home turned upside down within the hour, I heard from that soldier fellow that sells all the veggies and fruits on Phlox Island, forgot his name hm......" and Steve tried to remember while rubbing his forehead.
"You mean Greg Badger, right? " John interupted his concentration.
"Yeah Badger... that's him", Gibson remembered.
"He came to see me and asked earlier this week if I knew  what the SBI had to do with Gerry Hevrier, because he knew that I talked to Gerry once in awhile. Badger didn't know yet at that time, that Gerry was killed in that mysterious car accident in Sandom. I also bluntly asked Gregory if he knows something about the towers at the base and he told me that it needs special admission passes to get in there and no one outside knows exaclty what they are for neither. See......even their own dare kept in the dark."
"This is getting weirder and weirder with time", Mike sighed in a low voice and looking into the emptyness of the room. "I don't know if we should go further with this or just leave everything as is. To be honest, I don't feel like having an accident also.", and he looked greatly worried at John Gabber, Alex Puto and Steve Gibson in Barby's Biergarten, where they have met this friday afternoon again.
"This surely is much bigger than I thought", John could only add while nodding his head positively and ordering another round for the group.»»

71.00


Near the town of Access the sun was up only since 10 minutes when young Charlie and his friend Diarmuid packed some things that they will need for their trip through the Ganoga Wilderness next month. Both had tried out the american indian tent that they got from a garage sale earlier this spring in Grasslake and have set it up near the property that Charlie's father John bought some 10 years ago on the West River close to the Winding River. The nights are still cool and both started a fire to warm up and get some hot tea boiling that Diarmuid brought along.
All five are ready to go, the date has been set and it is on June 3rd that they will officially leave for the wilderness trip through the Ganoga unmapped lands.

71.01


In Access Center it is the public grand opening of Donovan's new Renovation Center. Paul has ordered to sweep the parking clean and the entrance to welcome the public at noon. He is waiting personally for quite a lot of people, because his opening sale is the biggest yet seen in Simland concerning building materials and tool, and since it is springtime, many Sims are starting their planned renovations for the summer.Having been promoted since earlier this month and selling every tool at 50% off and every building material at 40 % off should be an excellent bait to bring in hundreds of handymen . *Hope that this week will pay a part of the new building* he said to his folks, knowing that it already was largely paid for with the army. By the end of this weekend, Donovan should have sold most of his inventory and be ready to re-stock for the summer.

71.02


71.03


Not far from there the airport is near the finishing point. The forest has been cut and leveling is about to end. While most of the terrain will end up in maintained fields for future use and construction, one runway is finished and already active with one passenger flight terminal, one cargo space and receiving/shipping terminal , a refuiling station and maintenance area and an military-only section.
A few hundred acres more were used and cleared for the airport terrains, but it will be used to expand with future needs.

71.04


Of course other buildings are still in the construction, such as the offices, a second smaller airstrip for private planes and a Parking for cars. Kohler buslines will have a station here also and his wife, who is still running the Kohler Taxiservice , will have a stand near the passenger terminal.
Even Guy Racsan is planning to open his jetengin factory here and sell the olderone near downtown to another industry's need of a building.
The construction of the airport will have taken about 2 and a halfyears to construct, which is 10 months faster than expected, but has cost as much as anticipated. The cost is in the 7 digits and now the town has to find the partial amount they planned to pay the airport. Remember that the government paid 70% of the costs.

71.05


Back in downtown, the shopping center came up for sale and since a Company in Beecherfalls is ready to invest a lot of money into building a new mall near the highway on the large terrain which has been cleared for several commercial centers by the town within the next months, the old one will be bulldozed down to open up a large space in the middle of town. The terrain was purchased by a company in Bluebay, which already owns a few commercial office buildings in the area, such as the gouvernment offices just on the other side of the street.
Here they will probably build more office buildings, something that the town needs more and more of and is quite a revenu egg.
Also the Co-Op building will disappear from downtown and a few other buildings nearby, ones of the few older buildings still standing. The town has bought the terrain to build its first courthouse on the Co-Op terrain. There will be law in town from next year on, instead going down to Bluebay eachtime a fellow wants to go to court with his neighbor for having seeded his lawn with daisies.

71.06


Where once the Kohler buslines and the Wormwood car sales were, we find today the municipal garage and a first passenger trainstation of the Winding River Valley. Although no passenger trains are running through town at the moment, they will come later this year. From here, people will be able to travel faster to Bluebay in the south and to Lakestead in the west four times daily. The SNR (Simland National Railways) has offered this service for one full year of experimentation and will decide after if or if not it will be profitable enough to keep the service running.
The former 24hr store and gazstation will continue to run without the bus service that has moved southward in town. A small busstop will though be available just beside it to make a connection with the trainroute.

71.07


And the last picture for today shows finally the end of construction of the new watertreatment plant down at the dam in Access Center. Promissed by the mayor himself that it would be finished by the midyear, the watertreatment plant went into function today pumping thousands of gallons of used waters into the tanks everydayinstead of dumping the wastes into the small river that already has known as the "deadriver".
They say that the plant will be doing its job up to 150,000 citizens in the future. The town of Access has today almost 75,000, exactly half of what the tanks can handle. This is one step further into a well organized town. Mayor Bartlett is proud of his work and so are most of the citizens.
This of course pleases very much Robert Yome, the amateur environmentalist. Robert has been watching carefully this project because his first Ace card to get Mayor «Bartlett of his officeseat. Yome is more and more implicated into the environment and has started a new organization of people that will once form a powerful societygroup. Some of his members we already know, such as Charlie Gabber and his friend Diarmuid, Gregory Badger, Riichirou Takahaschi and the most powerful citizens of them all, Rundi Sterling.

71.08


71.09



That's it again, now I will go back to BATting the Holland farmproppack for FrankU. I will be back in less than a week, time enough for you all to leave some comments. Have a nice weekend. Thanks

Fred

[nedalezz]

Another great update, Fred

The story continues to progress, and its always a fantastic read.

A town underground? Wow, I wonder what it could possibly mean, and I also wonder why such huge towers just to go down some tunnels!

[NASCAR_Guy]

Is Donavon's Store up for DL?

[mrbisonm]

Thanks for your comment, nedalezz.

Is Donavon's Store up for DL?

No.


You would like it? Pm me with your e-mail address.

Fred

[threestooges]

Nice to see the airport taking shape. I couldn't help but notice the military extension too. The only thing I see missing is parking, but I may have overlooked it. Nice development that's going on. The progress seems fairly realistic. Nice work as always.
-Matt

[mrbisonm]

Nice to see the airport taking shape. I couldn't help but notice the military extension too. The only thing I see missing is parking, but I may have overlooked it. Nice development that's going on. The progress seems fairly realistic. Nice work as always.
-Matt

Parking?...Oh yeah, you're right..... Well, I mentioned it in the story, just under pic 71.04 that other buildings and constructions are yet not finished and are under construction, including the parking. For now only, there will be a parking just above the Passenger Terminal on pic 71.05, where the brown groundcover is. It will not be big in the beginning, but room for an expansion will be available as the airport slowly grows with the town.
Thanks for commenting, Matt.


Here's a little look into the future of Access Center, maybe only two years from now......

[frostwolf]

Speaking of downloads, will the lumber mills ever be uploaded? I have a lot of cities and rural areas that need some kind of industry, and there really aren't a lot of sawmills anywhere.

[bat]

Nice new updates!
Fantastic pictures, too.

[mrbisonm]

Thanks bat for dropping in and leaving a comment.

Speaking of downloads, will the lumber mills ever be uploaded? I have a lot of cities and rural areas that need some kind of industry, and there really aren't a lot of sawmills anywhere.

Well, hard to say....I'm not a specialist of making these lots fully work and usefull and I have so many that I would like to upload, but don't feel right asking too often for someone to help. The ones I used are on Park lots and if you want them, let me know (PM) with your e-mail address and I will send them to you.
These are composed of several lots, mostly parks, but there's one on a windmill lot that produces the power and another one is a LM.

I will be back later this weekend with another update.

Fred

[danielcote]

Nice job! The town is really growing. 

[CabraBuitre]

Underground cavern the size of a city, huh...?

Can't wait to see what happens!