"Emergency! Everybody to get from street."
The proposal to declare a state of emergency in Richmond reminds of that movie “The Russians are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!” The Soviet sub's landing party is prepared to avert suspicion by crying in heavy accents, "Emergency! Everybody to get from street! Emergency!"
They get to do it just once. A little kid listens to them and runs into the house yelling, "Mom! The Russians are here!"
Welcome to Richmond.