Post by johnanail on Nov 19, 2017 23:39:05 GMT -6
He wakes up and swings his legs off the bed and puts on his boots and checks his AR15 and the magazine and puts his reloads and cleaning kit inside a duffel bag. His name is Ross Nickels and he lives in a post-apocalyptic world that had been ravaged by a war that lasted over 20 years. Ross stands 5'8" 175 lbs he has brown hair and green eyes. He takes his duffel bags and walks down the stairs of the long ago deserted hotel and walks out to his 93 Dodge Ram 350 with the Cummins diesel engine and fires it up; Though only 30 years he has the creases around his eyes and mouth of a man who is older than that. He goes down the road to what looks like a sandbag and cement wall compound.
A voice yells out," Password."
Ross smiles and laughs and says," Las Vegas."
'
The gates opened and there stood a man of 5'9" and weighed about 195 lbs and brown hair and brown eyes stood there.
He said," Adam are you going to invite me in or are we just going to stand here and stare at each other?"
Adam said," Nice truck why don't you pull that truck in there is plenty of room."
Ross pulled the truck in and parked it to the side of the road inside the compound and after the gate closed they gave each other a quick hug.
Adam asked," So what is it like?"
Ross said," There in what is left of Boston people are killing each other and trying to loot and scrounge whatever they can find. I had to stay locked up in my place for God knows how long. I peeked out and when I saw the people of my neighborhood had pretty much killed themselves off I grabbed my firearms and whatever I could grab. I left there and because of I drove the back roads until about 2 weeks later got into the Appalachians."
Adam said," The war ended about 2 or 3 years ago so how long did you stay in the Appalachians?"
Ross said," Probably close to that I would have stayed except for one thing I saw people moving my way so then I just gathered my stuff up stopped at this old truck stop got out my hand pump and went to the diesel tanks and pumped out about 100 gallons of diesel."
Adam said," Nice you are smart."
Ross said," As I was fueling up I saw 2 cars pull up to the gas pumps and they started killing themselves over the last drops of gas. They looked at me and thought I was fueling up with gas and I told them diesel because my truck is a Cummins. Anyway, as I was pulling away one of them started to pump that diesel into their car."
Adam laughed and said," They will be walking. By the way, follow me and you can stash that AR 15 in a safe spot."
Ross followed him to what looked like a garage and there was a cabinet and Adam unlocked the padlock.
Adam looked and was impressed he had a nice stockpile of long guns in this cabinet.
Adam said," The combination is 38 to the right and 24 to the left and 19 to the right. By the way what did you need?"
Ross almost forgot and said," Running low on 5.56 brass and primer could use more of that."
Adam said," How about gunpowder?"
Ross said," Got plenty of that."
Adam asked," What do you have?"
Ross said," Just willing to work if that is good enough."
Adam said," That is great I need help in plowing and preparing for spring planting."
Ross said," Well, nice and if you continually need my help and will put me up hell I won't be in much of a hurry to get that primer or brass."
Adam said," Be careful what you wish for why don't i show around. You will find that being one of those "insane preppers.""
Ross said," Remember, I never said that and if I could have prepped in Boston I would have had that diesel mechanic job."
Ross was impressed Adam had livestock like cows pigs goats and he had quite a garden spot and also other things that kept this place self-sustaining.
Upon the wall, he noticed a Browning .50 caliber machine gun and he laughed at that.
Ross asked," Adam really when did you get that?"
Adam said," I got that at that at the Armory after the world went to hell. It will work well as a deterrent for desperately hungry people."
Ross said," Really, aren't you supposed to be charitable?"
Adam said," Charitable maybe but stupid no. Desperate people can be worst than locust. I also have about 3000 rounds of .50 caliber ammo needless to say I don't use it unless I absolutely have to. Oh you will get to meet a couple of the neighbors they will be bringing a hog for us to slaughter and we will start smoking it after butchering it."
Ross said," Great, but why are they coming here?"
Adam said," We all kind of look out for each other and heck when we butcher a livestock, say a bull, hog or whatever it maybe we also occasionally have an old-fashioned party."
Ross said," Nice, so I got here right on time."
Adam said," Ya and oh we better get to work we are going to have to build a good-sized picnic table, nice thing is there is an old lumber store just down the road."
Ross climbed into the passenger seat of the old Dodge pickup and Adam got into the driver's seat and started up the the old Dodge 360 and drove to the lumber yard.
They drove into the yard and got some 2x4s and hooked up the trailer and put the 2x4s into the dual axle 15-foot trailer.
Ross asked," What about squaring this up."
Adam said," I would except the owner of this lumber yard was accidentally killed by the National Guard when everything went to hell."
Ross said," Damn."
Adam said," Ya, he and were friends we both hunted and fished together. What is left over this community we will use what lumber we need and any extra we just simply bring back."
Ross said," So, who will take the lumber store when we regain civilization?"
Adam said," If we do because wasn't it about 4 years ago that the Islamic jihadists tried to take what was the United States? Let's face it there may not be a semblance of civilization for at least 25 years. It will take the strong like us to do any rebuilding at all and those cities like Boston and New York City and Los Angelos and all the other major cities we used to know about may never exist again. Most of those cities depended on communities like us to ship food and other goods to them."
Ross thought about it and he saw that Adam was right Boston, for instance, had vegetables and meats and other foodstuffs constantly coming in and oil and gasoline and natural gas all coming in from other states.
Ross whistled and said," Shit, you are right and had environmentalists constantly saying how producing that energy was bad for the environment."
Adam said," Kind of easy when you are completely dependent on everybody else to exist."
Ross laughed at that last remark because it was so true and they pulled into the road to the compound and Adam stopped at the keypad and after punching in the combination the gates opened and Ross whistled in amazement again.
Adam laughed and said," This place is totally self-sufficient produce my own energy food and everything else I need."
They stopped and they took the lumber out in what was the front yard.
Adam said," This is a good spot to build the benches and tables."
They started working and they got done with three tables about 10 feet long and Ross looked and saw they looked good.
All of a sudden somebody yelled Los Vegas and Ross and Adam knew they brought the hog.
He opened the gate and two guys came in with a pickup and what looked like an old horse trailer.
They led the pig to what looked like a big 10x10 shed and one of the guys brought out a .25 caliber rifle and put it against the boars head and fired and that boar fell to his death instantly
They tied a rope around the back legs and hoisted the pig up and then pushed him inside the shed.
Adam said," Eric, Joe this is my good friend who thought it was a good idea to move to Boston 10 years ago but was able to escape to here"
Ross laughed and shook the hands of the two men and they shook hands and said nice to meet you.
They put on the clean what looked like lab coats and they started cutting and processing the meat what was essentially a sterile work environment.
Two hours later they had new pork and they put the hog in a functioning cooler and went outside.
Ross said," So what is next?"
Adam said," Come watch this."
He got on an ancient tractor with a backhoe and went to the large backyard dug out a trench that was 8 foot long and about 5 foot deep.
He put a bed of hickory chips and then put the hog on aluminum foil and then lit the chips and about 45 minutes later they were hot coals.
He wrapped the hog and then laid it on the hot coals and buried it.
He said," In about 10 hours I will put my sauce on my secret recipe."
After cleaning and sterilizing the processing room they sat down and had a little moonshine that Eric brought over.
Joe asked," So Ross what were you doing in Boston?"
Ross said," I was a diesel mechanic for Associated Global Systems."
Eric and Joe said," Wow, been by there quite an operation."
Ross said," It was but now seems like an eternity ago the shit went down then I hid at my place while people in my neighborhood killed each other and
had my AR15 waiting for it to calm down. Ater most people killed each other I got in my pickup and first headed to the Appalachians stayed there until
I saw evidence of people coming my way. After that, I drove and siphoning diesel into my pickup until I got here which was this morning I believe."
Eric asked," How did you do that?"
Ross said," I have a handpump in the back of my truck."
Eric said," Damn, you were prepared."
Ross said," I used it at my job sometimes but ya I was prepared for the apocalypse you can say."
They talked and laughed for 2 hours and then they had to leave.
Adam said," Well, you met a couple of my neighbors and you will meet more in a couple of days."
Ross said," They sure seem nice enough."
Adam said," Eric helped me with the wall and gates and Joe helped me with the landscaping. They have been good damn good friends of mine
and ya I do try to be as good as a neighbor as I can. I hope you don't mind this question but did anyone follow you?"
Ross said," No, I didn't stay on the interstate I drove the state blacktops or what was left of them and I was the only one on them and besides I
took my time would hunt and camp at various spots along the way."
Adam said," Cool but I know there will be hordes of people coming this way and they will be desperate."
Ross said," Ya, you are probably right and we will have to be prepared."
Adam said," This place is pretty prepared and they probably won't be coming real soon."
Ross handed Adam what looked like an old road map of Arkansas when he looked at it he was shocked.
Adam asked," Is that right this map is from 1950?"
Ross smiled and said," Ya, I inherited it from my dad and believe it or not that 2 lane state highway or what is left of it is still there and so is the
bridge over the Mississippi. It seems those Islamists had hit the bridges over most of the interstates but seemed to miss a bridge over at least
one state highway. Adam here is a lighter will you burn that map please?"
Adam said," Sure but why?"
Ross said," Call me crazy but just say that with that map destroyed beyond salvage no chance of an undesirable person won't have it."
Adam lit up the map and let it drop to the ground and watched it burn.
Adam said," I forgot to show you something a little ancient but hey it works."
They went down into a basement and against the wall was a pretty complex radio with a handset and earmuffs.
Ross said," A ham radio I am impressed."
A voice yells out," Password."
Ross smiles and laughs and says," Las Vegas."
'
The gates opened and there stood a man of 5'9" and weighed about 195 lbs and brown hair and brown eyes stood there.
He said," Adam are you going to invite me in or are we just going to stand here and stare at each other?"
Adam said," Nice truck why don't you pull that truck in there is plenty of room."
Ross pulled the truck in and parked it to the side of the road inside the compound and after the gate closed they gave each other a quick hug.
Adam asked," So what is it like?"
Ross said," There in what is left of Boston people are killing each other and trying to loot and scrounge whatever they can find. I had to stay locked up in my place for God knows how long. I peeked out and when I saw the people of my neighborhood had pretty much killed themselves off I grabbed my firearms and whatever I could grab. I left there and because of I drove the back roads until about 2 weeks later got into the Appalachians."
Adam said," The war ended about 2 or 3 years ago so how long did you stay in the Appalachians?"
Ross said," Probably close to that I would have stayed except for one thing I saw people moving my way so then I just gathered my stuff up stopped at this old truck stop got out my hand pump and went to the diesel tanks and pumped out about 100 gallons of diesel."
Adam said," Nice you are smart."
Ross said," As I was fueling up I saw 2 cars pull up to the gas pumps and they started killing themselves over the last drops of gas. They looked at me and thought I was fueling up with gas and I told them diesel because my truck is a Cummins. Anyway, as I was pulling away one of them started to pump that diesel into their car."
Adam laughed and said," They will be walking. By the way, follow me and you can stash that AR 15 in a safe spot."
Ross followed him to what looked like a garage and there was a cabinet and Adam unlocked the padlock.
Adam looked and was impressed he had a nice stockpile of long guns in this cabinet.
Adam said," The combination is 38 to the right and 24 to the left and 19 to the right. By the way what did you need?"
Ross almost forgot and said," Running low on 5.56 brass and primer could use more of that."
Adam said," How about gunpowder?"
Ross said," Got plenty of that."
Adam asked," What do you have?"
Ross said," Just willing to work if that is good enough."
Adam said," That is great I need help in plowing and preparing for spring planting."
Ross said," Well, nice and if you continually need my help and will put me up hell I won't be in much of a hurry to get that primer or brass."
Adam said," Be careful what you wish for why don't i show around. You will find that being one of those "insane preppers.""
Ross said," Remember, I never said that and if I could have prepped in Boston I would have had that diesel mechanic job."
Ross was impressed Adam had livestock like cows pigs goats and he had quite a garden spot and also other things that kept this place self-sustaining.
Upon the wall, he noticed a Browning .50 caliber machine gun and he laughed at that.
Ross asked," Adam really when did you get that?"
Adam said," I got that at that at the Armory after the world went to hell. It will work well as a deterrent for desperately hungry people."
Ross said," Really, aren't you supposed to be charitable?"
Adam said," Charitable maybe but stupid no. Desperate people can be worst than locust. I also have about 3000 rounds of .50 caliber ammo needless to say I don't use it unless I absolutely have to. Oh you will get to meet a couple of the neighbors they will be bringing a hog for us to slaughter and we will start smoking it after butchering it."
Ross said," Great, but why are they coming here?"
Adam said," We all kind of look out for each other and heck when we butcher a livestock, say a bull, hog or whatever it maybe we also occasionally have an old-fashioned party."
Ross said," Nice, so I got here right on time."
Adam said," Ya and oh we better get to work we are going to have to build a good-sized picnic table, nice thing is there is an old lumber store just down the road."
Ross climbed into the passenger seat of the old Dodge pickup and Adam got into the driver's seat and started up the the old Dodge 360 and drove to the lumber yard.
They drove into the yard and got some 2x4s and hooked up the trailer and put the 2x4s into the dual axle 15-foot trailer.
Ross asked," What about squaring this up."
Adam said," I would except the owner of this lumber yard was accidentally killed by the National Guard when everything went to hell."
Ross said," Damn."
Adam said," Ya, he and were friends we both hunted and fished together. What is left over this community we will use what lumber we need and any extra we just simply bring back."
Ross said," So, who will take the lumber store when we regain civilization?"
Adam said," If we do because wasn't it about 4 years ago that the Islamic jihadists tried to take what was the United States? Let's face it there may not be a semblance of civilization for at least 25 years. It will take the strong like us to do any rebuilding at all and those cities like Boston and New York City and Los Angelos and all the other major cities we used to know about may never exist again. Most of those cities depended on communities like us to ship food and other goods to them."
Ross thought about it and he saw that Adam was right Boston, for instance, had vegetables and meats and other foodstuffs constantly coming in and oil and gasoline and natural gas all coming in from other states.
Ross whistled and said," Shit, you are right and had environmentalists constantly saying how producing that energy was bad for the environment."
Adam said," Kind of easy when you are completely dependent on everybody else to exist."
Ross laughed at that last remark because it was so true and they pulled into the road to the compound and Adam stopped at the keypad and after punching in the combination the gates opened and Ross whistled in amazement again.
Adam laughed and said," This place is totally self-sufficient produce my own energy food and everything else I need."
They stopped and they took the lumber out in what was the front yard.
Adam said," This is a good spot to build the benches and tables."
They started working and they got done with three tables about 10 feet long and Ross looked and saw they looked good.
All of a sudden somebody yelled Los Vegas and Ross and Adam knew they brought the hog.
He opened the gate and two guys came in with a pickup and what looked like an old horse trailer.
They led the pig to what looked like a big 10x10 shed and one of the guys brought out a .25 caliber rifle and put it against the boars head and fired and that boar fell to his death instantly
They tied a rope around the back legs and hoisted the pig up and then pushed him inside the shed.
Adam said," Eric, Joe this is my good friend who thought it was a good idea to move to Boston 10 years ago but was able to escape to here"
Ross laughed and shook the hands of the two men and they shook hands and said nice to meet you.
They put on the clean what looked like lab coats and they started cutting and processing the meat what was essentially a sterile work environment.
Two hours later they had new pork and they put the hog in a functioning cooler and went outside.
Ross said," So what is next?"
Adam said," Come watch this."
He got on an ancient tractor with a backhoe and went to the large backyard dug out a trench that was 8 foot long and about 5 foot deep.
He put a bed of hickory chips and then put the hog on aluminum foil and then lit the chips and about 45 minutes later they were hot coals.
He wrapped the hog and then laid it on the hot coals and buried it.
He said," In about 10 hours I will put my sauce on my secret recipe."
After cleaning and sterilizing the processing room they sat down and had a little moonshine that Eric brought over.
Joe asked," So Ross what were you doing in Boston?"
Ross said," I was a diesel mechanic for Associated Global Systems."
Eric and Joe said," Wow, been by there quite an operation."
Ross said," It was but now seems like an eternity ago the shit went down then I hid at my place while people in my neighborhood killed each other and
had my AR15 waiting for it to calm down. Ater most people killed each other I got in my pickup and first headed to the Appalachians stayed there until
I saw evidence of people coming my way. After that, I drove and siphoning diesel into my pickup until I got here which was this morning I believe."
Eric asked," How did you do that?"
Ross said," I have a handpump in the back of my truck."
Eric said," Damn, you were prepared."
Ross said," I used it at my job sometimes but ya I was prepared for the apocalypse you can say."
They talked and laughed for 2 hours and then they had to leave.
Adam said," Well, you met a couple of my neighbors and you will meet more in a couple of days."
Ross said," They sure seem nice enough."
Adam said," Eric helped me with the wall and gates and Joe helped me with the landscaping. They have been good damn good friends of mine
and ya I do try to be as good as a neighbor as I can. I hope you don't mind this question but did anyone follow you?"
Ross said," No, I didn't stay on the interstate I drove the state blacktops or what was left of them and I was the only one on them and besides I
took my time would hunt and camp at various spots along the way."
Adam said," Cool but I know there will be hordes of people coming this way and they will be desperate."
Ross said," Ya, you are probably right and we will have to be prepared."
Adam said," This place is pretty prepared and they probably won't be coming real soon."
Ross handed Adam what looked like an old road map of Arkansas when he looked at it he was shocked.
Adam asked," Is that right this map is from 1950?"
Ross smiled and said," Ya, I inherited it from my dad and believe it or not that 2 lane state highway or what is left of it is still there and so is the
bridge over the Mississippi. It seems those Islamists had hit the bridges over most of the interstates but seemed to miss a bridge over at least
one state highway. Adam here is a lighter will you burn that map please?"
Adam said," Sure but why?"
Ross said," Call me crazy but just say that with that map destroyed beyond salvage no chance of an undesirable person won't have it."
Adam lit up the map and let it drop to the ground and watched it burn.
Adam said," I forgot to show you something a little ancient but hey it works."
They went down into a basement and against the wall was a pretty complex radio with a handset and earmuffs.
Ross said," A ham radio I am impressed."