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Post by cavsgt on Apr 6, 2022 9:20:09 GMT -6
Now you have our attention. Thank You phill
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Post by solo on Apr 6, 2022 9:39:06 GMT -6
Excellent build up. I would say you have perfected your pacing!
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Post by gipsy on Apr 6, 2022 11:14:34 GMT -6
Thanks for the update
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Post by texican on Apr 6, 2022 14:22:35 GMT -6
It is nice to read from someone who has actually done what they are writing about. Thanks phill I agree with this... Teen summers in hay and watermelon fields in South Mississippi... Made me really want an office job... Now I wish I had that again! Yep, until the first heart attack or stroke. As we get older there are things that we can not do and must realize our limitations. This came as a surprise when I first realized it. Texican....
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Post by ncsfsgm on Apr 7, 2022 8:02:42 GMT -6
Chapter 38 - Final Preparations
They tried to appear normal but all were in a frenzied state of mind putting together what may be the last supplies they would get for a long time, or maybe forever. Liam had a two 2000 gallon propane tanks put in and two more 1000 gallon gas tanks and plenty of fuel stabilizer for diesel and gas. Cole had purchased diesel UTVs and spare parts and scrounged all the fuel stabilizer he could find at the marinas too.
"Liam, we're spending a whole lot of money, maybe for nothing." Ginny said, one night at dinner.
"Sweetheart. It doesn't matter. We can't take it with us and as fast as we've been spending money, I keep making it. I just received another dividend check today that I'm going to spend."
"On what?
"One of the New River Gorge boat tour companies is upgrading to jet boats. They had been using airboats. They've got a touring airboat and a search and rescue airboat for sale. Dave and I are headed up to Ansted tomorrow to get them."
"Do you think the floods will last for that long?"
"I don't know, but I hate the idea of being isolated if they do. The waters could move right on out, but flood debris could stop the flow or at least make the receding waters slow. Cole, did you get the dynamite?"
"Yes sir. Gail and I are going Sam's tomorrow. Is there anything you want?"
"Get more salt. Can't have enough. If they have coffee in metal cans get that too. I may die of old age still using up these supplies but I won't die without my coffee."
Cole and Jake continued to buy all the reloading supplies they could find, and ammunition they could find also. There purchases weren't that large, but steady. Ginny had all the cabinets in the summer kitchen, the pantry and the food store room packed with spices of all kinds, and knew where every bottle and box was located. They still kept the cows in the lower pastures and wouldn't be bring them up until they had to. Liam bought two hogs and had them butchered, the hams and bacon cured and everything else turned into sausage and lard.
They finally reached a point to where they couldn't think of anything else to store. Liam bought two more chest freezers and had two steers butchered. Cole and Jake roamed the gun shops and made purchases here and there. The generator shed was mostly bare so Liam purchased plywood and lumber and stored it there. As winter approached, they cut up all the logs they had and processed it into firewood and bought even more, stacking and tarping it wherever they could find a relatively level place in the woods.
Ray called Cole one evening. He'd gotten some intel from one of his friends in Virginia. They had 186 days.
Liam read over the manuals for the airboats and ordered the lubricants and spare parts they would need for the near future. That was a laugh. They didn't even know if they had a future. But they were preparing for one. They had plenty seeds for gardening and replacing pastures safely stored to try and get back to normality when this was over. He did do some research and purchased some coastal pasture grass seed that was salt tolerant and could help bring the lower pastures back quicker when the waters receded.
Dave talked to Oaky and told him what was going to happen. Oaky moved his trailer and had another well drilled and was in the process of setting up his workshop on higher ground. Henry and Ralph both had homes in the higher elevations so they should be safe. They began stocking up with foodstuffs also.
"Is there anything else we can do?" Jake asked.
Liam looked around the group. "We all need to look over the inventory lists and see if anything stands out. If this is going to be as bad as we think it is, It could be a long time before anything is trucked in. One thing I did order today was body bags masks and gloves. Like it or not, we will probably get a lot of bodies washing up. I've already looked around and picked out a couple of places for mass graves."
"I'd like to get more white and apple cider vinegar." Ginny said.
"Well, let's make running lists and consolidate them. As soon as things start stirring, we need to get to Sam's quickly and get our last load. This can't stay under the covers forever."
They made their last trip to Sam's after the new year. They took three trailers and filled them all with canned sodas, more personal hygiene items, coffee, sugar, tea, salt, peanut butter and anything else they could stuff into the trailers. Sam's was a little busier than usual for a weekday, so they packed up quickly and got out of there. They spent the rest of the day unloading, inventorying and storing the trailers' contents. Everyone's nerves were on edge after that trip so they stayed close to home for the next few weeks. Liam did go into Johnson City and bought another tractor identical to the one he had. Other than that, they waited.
<NASA coordinate with the military and other countries and launched missiles at the asteroid, far enough out to get the optimum deflection. The relatively brittle asteroid, instead of being deflected, was shattered into pieces, and for the first time, revealing the second, more dangerous asteroid. The secret was quickly out.
Panic ensued and land values inland at higher elevations skyrocketed as people looked for safer climes. Others packed up as much as they could and headed west. A State of Emergency was declared for the entire Eastern Seaboard as interstates became clogged with people fleeing for somewhere else other than where they were. Gas stations quickly ran out of gas and the military had to step in to refuel people stranded along highways and get them going again. People were instinctively heading west but the government didn't know exactly where the impact would occur, and wouldn't know for weeks. All they knew was that it would hit.
The first impact occurred in Patterson, New Jersey. The impact of a large piece of the first asteroid, the only one to hit land, formed a crater almost two and a half miles across, which was inconsequential because it would soon be filled with seawater.
The 11,088,000,000 metric ton Destroyer asteroid, traveling at 160,000 mph with the help of gravity, impacted at 0243R, 165 miles east of Wilmington, North Carolina, into the 13,000 foot depths of the Atlantic Ocean. The asteroid, traveling in a retrograde orbit, lit the skies of the entire United States as it entered the atmosphere, but the Boyle, Morton and Wilson families were all asleep and only awaken by the sonic boom, the blast and the vibration. The sound was felt and heard around the world. Although it disrupted the northward flowing Gulf Stream, it would be back to its normal flow within a few months. The impacting asteroid missed the continental shelf, but not by much. On impact, the meteorite threw up water and vapor from the ocean's depths to the edge of space. Wilmington was, in minutes, wiped from the face of the earth. The tsunami quickly traveled inland and spread across the ocean. Delmar Peninsula was gone. The thousand foot wave swept up the Chesapeake Bay and quickly inundated Washington D.C. and everything west to the Appalachians. Camp David was awash, but not destroyed, as were Mount Weather EOC and the Raven Rock Complex. Westward, the tsunami wave threw up sheets of water hundreds of feet high in areas as it hit the Appalachians while water poured through the natural and man-made passes into the lower elevations on the other side.
When the tsunami hit La Palma, the volcano sheered of, sending billions of tons of earth and rock into the ocean. Nine hours later, in the United States, what the first tsunami wave didn't destroy, the second wave from La Palma did. There were very few things left standing to stop it.
Liam, Ginny, Gail and Cole quickly dressed , got their lights and started making checks. They had moved the cattle to the upper pasture a couple of days before to they shouldn't be a problem. Still, Cole and Gail took Rokons to check on them. Liam checked the fuel tanks and nothing was leaking so he returned to the house. Jake, Sandy, Dave and Ellen pulled up and went into the house with him.
"It would have to hit in the middle of the night." Dave grumbled.
Sandy and Ellen began helping Ginny put together breakfast as Cole and Gail returned. Dave noticed that both Gail and Cole wore their pistols.
"You think we need to be armed?"
"Dave, from this point on, we don't know what to expect. I feel a little better just knowing I have it."
Then they all heard the sound of rushing water.
"I'll go check." Cole said.
They all went outside and looked toward the valley but couldn't see anything in the dark. Cole and Gail got on their Rokons and headed cautiously down the hill. They were three quarters of the way down when their bike headlights picked up the moving water. They watched for a couple of minutes then headed back up the hill.
"How far up is it?" Liam asked.
"Around the 1600 foot line, and not rising. The water is moving slowly to the south."
"Well, maybe it will drain out quickly." Dave said.
"Well, nothing we can do about it. I guess nobody's going back to sleep so we might as well turn on the TV and see what the talking heads have to say and get some breakfast." Liam said, heading back inside.
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Post by gipsy on Apr 7, 2022 9:21:14 GMT -6
Perhaps some come to Jesus moments
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Post by ncsfsgm on Apr 7, 2022 22:45:31 GMT -6
Chapter 39 - Rainy Days and Rainy Nights
They were back outside at daylight to see the damage done. They were virtually an island in the floodwaters that stretched to the horizon to the east and to Chimneytop Mountain in the west. There were dotted islands around but when Jake brought out a long range spotting scope, no life was seen on them except for some livestock and a few deer. They were standing there when the next chain of tsunami waves from La Palma added water to the flood, but the water level only rose about ten feet more. The last of the roofs they had spotted before were now under water. There was nothing they could do and staying out there was depressing. The women returned to the house and the men went to check the airboats.
"Cole, what happens next?" Liam asked.
"Well, if the talking heads are right about the impact point, then we'll start getting a lot of rain. Probably within a few hours. No telling how long the rain will last."
"Okay. I'd like to go check on Ralph and Oaky and make sure they are all right before the rains start. But first, we need to go inside and talk to the women. I think everyone should move into the house and shelter so we can all be together for moral support. We also need to milk the cows and take care of the chickens."
The men nodded and followed Liam into the house.
Jake stood at the front of the airboat holding on to a rope to keep his balance and watching for debris in front of them as they headed to Oaky's. Not having to worry about following roads, it was almost a straight shot. The water had risen within 50 feet of Oaky's trailer, but he was high and dry. Hearing the boats, Oaky came out to greet them.
"Well, it happened, just like you said." Oaky said.
"You and your family all right?" Dave asked.
"We're just fine, as long as the water don't rise anymore."
"I'm pretty sure this is as high as it's going to get from the tsunamis. It's going to rain like hell within the next few hours and we're going to have to keep an eye on the water level. If it looks like it's rising, we'll go out and find where it's being held back. We've got plenty of dynamite to blow any debris dams."
"Oaky, monitor CB channel 15. You shouldn't have any problem reaching the house. Call us if you need anything."
"I'll do that Dave."
"We're headed over to Ralph Batchlor's and check on them next."
"Okay, ya'll be careful."
Cole led again as they made their way to Ralph's. There was more debris up this way and Cole had to go at a slower speed, with Jake using arm signals to wave him around logs and parts of floating roofs. As they neared the hilltop Ralph's house sat on, Ralph came out on the deck and waved, then came down to the water to meet the boats."
"Well, this turned out worse than I thought." Ralph said.
"Well, it's not going to get much better for a while. It's going to rain heavily for a long time, starting in a few hours, so be prepared. Do you have a CB radio?"
"Yeah, I have a handheld I can hook up to the antenna on the garage."
"Well, If you need any help, give us a call on Channel 15. We'll be here as quick as we can." Liam said.
"Thanks Liam, I hope I won't have to call. But it will be nice to get in touch with someone. How many do you think made it around here?"
"Not many, I'm thinking." Liam said, sadly.
"Well Ralph, we'll head home. Remember to call us on Channel 15."
"Will do, Cole. You all be safe."
Cole guided them back home where they loaded the airboats back on the trailers and move them back up to higher ground. When they had them refueled, Cole and Jake took off in a UTV to check the cattle while Liam checked Dave's house and the greenhouse. They all got back to the house and the women had lunch ready.
"What do we have to do next?" Dave asked after lunch.
"Break out your raingear. This is unfamiliar territory for all of us. We'll just have to see what happens. You do need to move anything you want for the next while to here though." Liam said.
"Yeah, Ellen and I are going to the house and pack some stuff."
"Well, don't mess around. The rains could start at any time, and when you park your truck, let the tailgate down. If it rains as hard as Cole says it will, It won't drain quick enough."
Dave got up and he and Ellen left.
Angie was crawling around in her playpen whining and reaching through the bars to Cole. Cole went over and picked her up. She immediately smiled and patted his face.
Jake got up and said he and Sandy were going to the house and pack. When they had left, Ginny and Gail came in and sat.
"Is there anything we need to do?" Ginny asked.
"We need to just get the rest settled in when they get back and continue as normally as we can. We need to monitor the water level to make sure the flood doesn't get dammed up somewhere but it's really just normal daily activities.
They were watching the national news broadcasted out of Chicago. None of the east coast news headquarters had survived the tsunamis, but a lot of the talking heads did. They were now broadcasting from affiliate stations. Cole looked at the pictures and videos but paid little attention to their talking points. He'd caught and seen the lies of the reporters for the networks. They were politically biased toward the Democrats so whatever they said, he took it with a grain of salt. Things did look bad though. New York was a mess. When the waters receded. The streets were fill with drowned vehicles and debris and bodies. Those in the high-rise buildings were safe but would soon run out of food and water and had no power. National Guard units across the country were federalized and now on their way to conduct rescue and recovery operations. Tow truck and crane companies from the unaffected states, on their own volition, were headed to the east coast states to help in clearing the streets and highways.
The rain started like a waterfall that evening around 2045. It just started with a rush, and wouldn't slow for several days. When they got up the next morning, Cole put his Gortex rainsuit and took a Rokon down to check the water level. It had receded somewhat but the heavy rain was keeping it from going down much. After a hot breakfast of pancakes, eggs bacon, Jake and Cole went down to the barn to milk the cows. Liam and Dave took care of the chickens and rode up to check t the greenhouse. Everything was secure. The rain was still falling heavily and it may have been the early morning, but it felt cooler. They checked the roads, looking for areas starting to wash out, but they found none. Before going to the house, Liam and Dave rode down the hill and checked the water level against the stake they had driven in next to the driveway when the floods came. The water was up a little to near where I was when the floods started but they attributed it to the rains. They headed back to the house and before going in, Liam checked the rain gauge on the patio. It was up to the ten inch mark and overflowing. Liam emptied the gauge and decided he needed to check it a little more often and empty it before it overflowed. When Cole and Jake came back, Liam already had the strainer set up and a fresh milk can sitting to the side. They strained the milk into the new can and set it into the swirling 35 degree water of the milk cooler and closed the lid. Later that afternoon, Ginny would come down and skim the heavy cream off the top to save and make butter. After washing the buckets and the milk can, they went down in the shelter and scanned the ham bands for any news from survivors.
The next morning Ginny made a big pan of biscuits and Cole whipped up a big pot of S.O.S. using the salt cured dried beef they had put up. That, with the eggs cooked to order, and copious amounts of coffee, had everyone in a stupor. Liam and Dave had milking duties that morning so Cole and Jake rode down to check the water level before going to take care of the chickens. The water was down about two feet, but it was receding slowly. After feeding the chickens and collecting the eggs, they got the milk strainer and can ready for Liam and skimmed what little cream had collected on top of yesterday's milk and added it to the cream crock in the refrigerator. Then they bottled the milk in quart milk bottles they had ordered from Lehman's. As they were washing everything up in the summer kitchen, Liam and Dave returned and strained their milk and set it in the milk cooler. As they were finishing washing things up, Ginny came in and asked if someone would build a fire in the bread oven. They wanted to bake today. Cole built the fire and they went to check the news on the TV but the cloud cover was so heavy the satellite reception bad so they went to the shelter and did radio checks with Ralph and Oaky and scanned the ham bands, listening to what the operators were saying. They finally lost power, probably by floating debris taking out a power pole. The transfer switch kicked in and the generator started. They had power back within 20 seconds.
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Post by gipsy on Apr 8, 2022 5:20:33 GMT -6
Thanks for the update. Break out the fishing poles.
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Post by solo on Apr 8, 2022 9:04:02 GMT -6
You had me clicking reload on this story at least 6-7 times a day. That has now become 6-7 times an hour! Good Stuff! Thank you for sharing!
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Post by ncsfsgm on Apr 8, 2022 10:04:59 GMT -6
Chapter 40 - Salvaging and Recovery
The first thing Liam did the next morning was to make radio checks with Ralph and Oaky. As high up as they were it was almost a line of sight transmission. Of course, with the water acting as a reflector didn't hurt either. He made calls on the most popular CB channels used in the area, including Channel 19, but heard nothing. Cole and Jake went to milk the cows and Liam did the chickens while Dave tended the fires in the furnaces for the house and greenhouse. The temperatures were 20 degrees cooler than before the asteroid strike. The waters had receded around ten feet and flotsam had gathered along the temporary shoreline. Some of it looked usable. They would come down after breakfast and see what was recoverable. After breakfast. Gail got her rainsuit on and no one said anything when she came out with her combat vest and AR-15. Gail was going to drive the tractor with a trailer down the driveway to the water's edge while the men did the scrounging. Liam hadn't even thought about it when he had purchased the snake sticks several months ago, but they came in handy today. They had to be careful where they stepped and if they picked something up, the visually checked out the area and pulled the item away with the stick before picking it up. Most of the stuff was water logged and useless but they did come across cans of coffee, plastic containers of coffee creamer and other sealed plastic containers with different contents in an area where the water had formed an eddy. They had several dozen containers. They got all they could salvage in the area and took it back up to the house. Cole and Jake decided to take the rescue airboat down the eastern shore and see if they could find any more salvage while they rest would wash off the containers and set them aside to dry. They all helped unload the trailer, giving each container a thorough spraying with the water hose then took them into the summer kitchen. Ginny, Sandy and Ellen took over from there. Liam and Dave built fires in the stoves to help the things dry after the women had washed every container off with soapy water. Ironically, part of the flotsam had been bottles of dish detergent. Jake, Cole and Gail went to prepare the airboat, with Jake stopping to exchange his pistol for his .357 revolver with snake shot rounds and Cole to pick up a couple of long dip nets.
"I'll move the snakes around if they aren't coming toward me, but if they so much as make a head fake at me, He's going to go wherever dead snakes go." Jake had said.
They launched the boat and moved slowly southwest along the water's edge, dipping out the occasional floating container. They found where another eddy had formed and beached the boat, They found pretty much the same items as they had at the first eddy and recovered as much as they could, quickly filling most of the available deck space of the boat. On the way back, Cole called Liam on the radio and Dave had the tractor waiting for them with another trailer. They unloaded and headed back out for another salvage hunt. They finished cleaning up the second eddy and continued continuing southwest. Coming around the point of a small ridge, the saw a shipping container partially beached on shore. Gail carefully moved the airboat up next to the container and shut down. Checking carefully around the bow of the boat before stepping off Cole went over to inspect the container. It had seals on the handles. Taking his knife out of its sheath, he cut the seals and he and Jake opened the doors. The shipping documents in the pouch on the door revealed the container had been intended for the Walmart that had just opened up in Johnson City. There was no telling what was in there. The item codes meant nothing to them. They just closed it back up and left it for later. They continued on down the water line, occasionally dipping something out of the water or clearing a packed mass at the base of trees. When they finally had the boat filled to capacity, they returned to the driveway landing site and found a tractor and trailer already waiting for them. They unloaded the salvage into the trailer, loaded the airboat onto its trailer and took everything up the hill. They rinsed everything in the trailer off and began carrying it into the summer kitchen. Ellen came in with an armload of towels she had taken out of the dryer and dumped them on a table. Ginny was washing and Sandy was drying. Gail, Jake, and Cole took off their rainsuits and hung them up to drip and dry and warmed themselves by the stoves before pitching in to help dry the containers off, then sorting and stacking them.
"Where's Dad?" Cole asked.
"He and Dave took a load down to the shelter store rooms." Ginny answered.
Cole and Jake dropped what they were doing and started helping carry the boxes of items down to the store room after Ellen added them to the inventory list. It took the rest of the day to get everything put away. After hot showers, they all settled down to a dinner of vegetable beef soup and grilled cheese sandwiches.
Later, relaxing in the Great Room and playing with Angie, Cole said, "We didn't even get down to Banks Road at the end of the property. There should be a good place for an eddy down there."
Liam nodded. "We should get as much in as we collect. It won't last long in this weather unless it completely sealed in a can. I want to take the seats out of that tourist airboat in the morning and we can all five go out together. We'll do a cursory check along what you've already covered and head for your quitting point. What was in the shipping container?"
"I don't know. Just some boxes headed for that new Walmart store in Johnson City. You couldn't tell what the contents were by the shipping bar scanner codes." Cole replied.
"Well, as long as there's no danger of it floating away, we can let it stay there until the rains let up. Has the water gone down much?"
"No so you could tell, this rain is going to keep the levels up for a while."
The next morning they quickly unbolted the passenger seats from the tourist airboat and moved the boats down the drive to the launch site. Gail and Cole drove the tractors with their trailers down and pre-positioned them. Liam took one of the dip nets onto their boat and Dave followed Gail as they checked the water and shoreline. They picked up a lot of plastic containers of bungie cords on the way, along with tube containers of tennis balls. Anything that floated, they picked it up. When they finally reached the point where Cole and Jake had stopped the day before, they found more salvage, plus another shipping container. They opened it and the first box they came to held fifteen laundry baskets. Cole took the baskets and closed the container . They found waterlogged boxes of potato chips too. Discarding the boxes and taking the bags of chips, they placed them in baskets. When they got to Banks Road there was a lot of salvage there., on shore and floating. They hardly got started and filled up both boats. Returning to the landing site a little faster, but keeping a watch for debris, they unloaded, then quickly returned to Banks Road. Spending the rest of the afternoon just cleaning up the salvage at that eddy, they called it a day. There were two highly packed trailers to deal with.
On the ninth day after the rains started, the rain slackened a bit. They had found six shipping containers and a ton of coffee and other plastic containers of spices and everything under the sun. They had more dish and laundry detergent that they would ever use. A lot of that was stacked along the left wall of the shelter corridors to keep from taking up so much space in the store rooms.
The daily chores started with taking care of the animals and milking, et breakfast, then head out to see what they could salvage.
Intermittent satellite signals were coming through. It seemed the seat of government had been moved to Denver, Colorado. Initially, it had been in Kansas City, Missouri then with all the rain, the Missouri river flooded and government was relocated to Denver. All, except a few of the members of Congress made it through the devastation. Well, you can't always have things your way. Like cockroaches, politicians always find a way to survive.
The levees failed in New Orleans and now it was just an extension of Lake Pontchartrain. They had no plans to even attempt to recover it. The Mississippi River was flooded from Milwaukee to the Gulf, causing even greater relocations of people. Sickness was spreading rapidly and cremation became the preferred method of disposing of bodies. The ovens were burning night and day; the government making it a priority of keeping the crematoriums supplied with propane for the ovens.
Refineries in Louisiana were under water and those in Texas had received some backwash from the tsunamis, but operations were quickly restored. They were prepared to take some flooding and it hadn't been as bad as it could have been.
Gail and Cole found several three and five hundred gallon propane tanks floating and towed them to an area near the landing site. They would figure out a way to use the gas later. When they would take supplies to the Jerome and Batchlor families, they always managed to find salvage on the way back. In their searches, they found twelve other families that managed to survive the flooding by the fact their homes were at higher elevations. They were able to resupply and find boats of different sizes for them. This excited them and they extended their searches even farther, occasionally finding survivors.
They finally took the two airboats up to Kingsport. It was deserted. The flooding had covered the whole area below the 1300 foot elevation. You could barely tell where the channel of the South Fork of the Holston River ran and Fort Patrick Henry Lake wasn't discernible. They managed to find a couple of grounded 14' Jon boats and took them under tow, filling them with salvage as they found it. In the future, they would use this same technique to salvage and resupply the families they knew of.
Eighty six days later, the rains suddenly stopped and the clouds cleared away, letting the sunlight shine through. The flood waters slowly receded and the land dried out. The Boyle clan and its extensions managed to get the garden planted. When the old pastures finally dried out enough to plow, The pasture grasses were replanted and the fences were replaced. It wouldn't be until the next year until they moved the cattle back down though.
Liam and Cole took a break from placing the T-posts, looking over the valley.
"You know, we didn't know what the hell we were doing when we tried to get ready for this." Liam said.
"Yeah, but we survived." Cole said, sighing.
The End
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Post by sniper69 on Apr 8, 2022 10:14:45 GMT -6
Thank you for another excellent story. It is appreciated!
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Post by jwh123 on Apr 8, 2022 10:18:36 GMT -6
Thanks for a great story!
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Post by kaijafon on Apr 8, 2022 10:49:40 GMT -6
thank you for the great story!
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Post by ncsfsgm on Apr 8, 2022 13:15:04 GMT -6
WHY?
This story covers many years of a ten year old boy’s life, from his early exposure to being prepared to the day he was glad he had learned all the things he had.
It is easy to jump through the years and say he got this and he did that, but I wanted to show how his mindset was formed. It wasn’t a short story. You can’t tell in a few paragraphs how his psych was formed.
When I was teaching some of the finest soldiers in the world on communications equipment, it wasn’t enough to tell them the equipment does this and that. You had to tell them why it did this and that and what to do if it didn’t do it correctly. I wanted to expose you to the things that caused the characters became the people they were.
Again, I tried to make this story as real as I could. I’ve fudged the dates on some of the events, but the experiences are those my colleagues and myself over the years, and they are real. Yes, I know a guy with a photographic memory. I’m used to him, but he still gives me the willies sometimes. I do know a guy that has his own bunker in a decommissioned site and is an avid prepper, but his site isn’t in Tennessee. Will an asteroid crash into Earth? Probably, but hopefully years after those who read this are dead and gone. There were friends who conducted clandestine operations for government agencies and, first hand, learned of some of the deceit and duplicity I unveil here. There are a lot of good people in the government and especially in the military, but sometimes they are not the ones in power.
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Post by kahbender on Apr 8, 2022 13:29:20 GMT -6
Great story 😁
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Post by gipsy on Apr 8, 2022 13:59:18 GMT -6
Thanks for a fine story
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Post by cavsgt on Apr 8, 2022 14:28:20 GMT -6
ncsfsgm
Thank You for a wonderful, scary story. Unfortunately probably will be self fulfilling at sometime, as you said I hope after all of us are long gone. As stated before nice to read the work of somebody who has been there and done that. Sometimes knowing is worse than not knowing.
Is it too soon to ask just when the next story will be available.
phill
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Post by gipsy on Apr 8, 2022 15:04:51 GMT -6
Remember that we have Saving Grace to finish.
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Post by solo on Apr 8, 2022 16:12:48 GMT -6
I am left fulfilled and empty at the same time. I will miss these characters. You accomplished the mission of their development. Thank you for sharing your talent.
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Post by biggkidd on Apr 8, 2022 17:42:16 GMT -6
Thank You
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Post by 9idrr on Apr 8, 2022 18:17:51 GMT -6
Many thanks.
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Post by steamroller on Apr 8, 2022 19:47:43 GMT -6
Excellent story, thank you !!
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Post by udwe on Apr 8, 2022 21:48:13 GMT -6
Thank you! Great story!
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Post by kiwibutterfly on Apr 8, 2022 22:06:25 GMT -6
Thank you so much for another great story.
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Post by dannab1 on Apr 9, 2022 5:49:04 GMT -6
Love the details you add for the why! Really enjoy all your stories. Sure hope you have more!
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