Alone: Book 1: Facing Armageddon by Darrell Maloney

Author:Darrell Maloney [Maloney, Darrell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-05-25T04:00:00+00:00

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As the first drops hit his face, Dave shifted into high gear. He tossed the last of the bags over the fence and then ran back to the Hansen house. He removed the snap-on lids from the Hefty cans at the corners of the house so the runoff from the roof would fill them. Then he scrambled back into his own yard, careful to close his hidden gate behind him. He didn’t want any of the rabbits to get into the Hansens’ yard and take up residence there.

He grabbed the bags of grass and tossed them onto the back deck. Then he removed the lids from the Hefty cans at the corners of his own house, just as the rainwater began pouring out of the downspouts.

Spring rains in San Antonio came in torrents. He knew it wouldn’t take long for all of the cans to fill, and while it wouldn’t be suitable for drinking, it would provide him with a lot of water to irrigate his crops with.

He stopped only long enough to catch his breath before going back into the yard. The rabbits were scrambling for shelter under the eaves of the house or on the deck, and probably thought the human insane for going out into the downpour.

But Dave still had a lot of work to do.

He went to the east fence and picked up the tarp that was rolled up against it. He unrolled it, hooking the grommets on one side of the tarp to the screws on the top rail of the fence. The other side was stretched to the two fence posts he’d buried before, and was hooked to screws on top of the posts.

Then he retrieved a Hefty can from the deck and placed in between the posts, at the spot where the center of the tarp dipped down slightly. Immediately, water began flowing into the can.

While the first can was filling, Dave ran to the west side of the yard and did the same thing with his second rain tarp.

He had only a few minutes to catch his breath, and shifted into a lower gear.

The empty water bottles were already close by. He’d taken them from the attic a couple of days before and piled them, still in trash bags, on the back deck. Now he walked over to the deck and started moving them into the yard, next to the Hefty cans.

The cans were rapidly filling with water now. The east can was three quarters of the way full.

Dave ripped open one of the trash bags and took out the first of about twenty empty two liter soda bottles. He removed the cap and shoved it beneath the water, watching the bubbles rise quickly to the surface as it filled with rain water.

He had no time to be neat and organized. He wanted to stay ahead of the rain, so he could fill all of his remaining bottles. And he’d never stopped to count them, but he was certain he had at least two hundred or better.

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