Above the Hush by Jacqueline Druga

Author:Jacqueline Druga [Druga, Jacqueline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-05T22:00:00+00:00

21 – SPOILS

I didn’t quite understand why everyone up and left town. By my estimate it had to be around thirty people, give or take a few. Where were they going to go? I could understand if they feared or thought about the impending meltdown, but it was evident they didn’t. Because they were headed right into it. What in the world would possess them to go? They had everything they needed right here in this town.

Maybe their destination was Charlottesville, Richmond or even farther north to Alexandria.

Shane had suggested that perhaps Roy was wrong. That maybe they weren’t in search of power to live, but rather away from power to live. Go somewhere off the grid. But if that was the case would Gridlock be the place for my husband? For all I knew, he may have headed there. After we exhausted a search of the east, Gridlock was my next destination. Unlike Ken, I would leave a note. Not only was my family separated, they were out in the world, and there was no way to find out exactly where they went. It was conceivable I would never see them again. With the impending meltdown not far away distance wise, I had to wonder what in the world would be next. It seemed like we were facing one thing after another.

Toggling between seriousness and joking, I asked West, “What is next? Ice Age? Are we all going to freeze over while we're in the dark ages without any power or light?”

He said, “I wouldn’t rule that out.”

Seriously? How insane was that?

I had been spoiled by the information and technology world we had built. I relied heavily on it. Have a pain … look it up. Need a hotel room … look it up. Anything, anything I needed to know I searched for on the Internet. I needed answers to what was going on, and there were none. Nothing. It was like I had every ounce of knowledge sucked out of me, stolen, never to return. But it really wasn’t, eventually we would find a new way, a way to learn things for ourselves, or teach ourselves.

The prospect of the new world we faced was a frightening one. It was one that I would have to learn how to live in. In a sense, I envied my daughter, Molly. She didn’t know the world I grew up in, the one I came to be spoiled by. She would know this new world and would thrive in it. While others like me, recoiled from it in some sort of way.

How would we manage to stay warm? To eat? To get well when we’re sick, or the big one, to find other people?

West didn’t mince his words. “If you want to eat you’ll grow your food. If you want a community you will build one. If you want a doctor, you’ll find one. If not, then you’ll be one.”

Adapt and change. Or die.

A long-term plan for survival would be needed, one

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