Applied Electromagnetism (Chemistry Lessons Book 4) by Susannah Nix

Author:Susannah Nix [Nix, Susannah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Haver Street Press
Published: 2019-07-01T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“How long before the road’s drivable again?” Adam asked the waitress. His fingers drummed the Formica tabletop like a court stenographer jacked up on speed—or eight cups of coffee and four cans of Coke.

The waitress shrugged. “Rain’s gotta stop first. After that, maybe a few hours? Assuming the bridge doesn’t take any damage in the flooding. Last year an RV got swept into it and took out a couple of the pilings.”

“There’s got to be another way around,” Olivia reasoned. “An alternate route to get to the plant so the workers can get back and forth.”

“Oh, sure. You can get to it from Rutersville.”

“Where’s that?” Adam asked.

“Another five miles down the highway, on the other side of the river that’s out of its banks.”

“So we can’t go that way either,” Olivia said.

“Not right now you can’t. ’Fraid you’re stuck here for the time being. But don’t worry, hon. The water always goes back down eventually.” The waitress swept Adam’s credit card off the table and carried it away with their dirty dishes.

“Fuck,” Adam said, rubbing his forehead with the heel of his hand. “Fuck, fuck, fuck.”

“Maybe we’re almost through the worst of the storm and it’ll stop raining soon?” Olivia pulled out her phone to check the weather, but the cellular signal was crap and she couldn’t get her weather app to load.

“Or maybe not.” Adam pointed to the TV behind her.

It was showing another weather bulletin. The radar was pretty much solid red all around them, with more rain bands headed their way from the southeast. The crawl at the bottom of the screen announced a flash flood warning and a severe thunderstorm warning in effect until six the following morning.

“What now?” Olivia asked numbly. She shouldn’t be surprised, the way the rest of this trip had gone. They really were cursed.

Adam shrugged helplessly as he stared at the flooded parking lot. “I guess we wade back to our rooms, get a good night’s sleep, and wait for it to stop raining.”

Even with Olivia’s umbrella, the dash back to their rooms left them both soaked to the skin. Adam left her at the door of her room, and she went into the bathroom to strip out of her wet clothes and dry off.

She changed into pajamas and crawled into bed with her laptop, but the hotel Wi-Fi wasn’t working. Not surprising, she supposed, given the strength of the storm. The wind had increased in the last hour, and thunder rumbled ominously in the distance. Her phone still didn’t have a signal either, and when she tried to turn on the TV she found the cable was out too.

There was nothing to do but try to get some sleep and hope things would be better in the morning.

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