Commune: Book Two (Commune Series 2) by Joshua Gayou

Author:Joshua Gayou [Gayou, Joshua]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-08-23T07:00:00+00:00

Within one week’s time, we had the outhouses fully constructed along with four shipping containers all lined up next to each other and well on their way to being converted into livable homes. Oscar worked on these like a lunatic, driving himself from sunup to sundown each day, barely ever stopping to eat or rest. He pulled in the rest of us to help along the way, often times just grabbing whoever happened to be close by, yet some of us became regular helpers when we weren’t out trying to get more food, that persistent, nagging worry that drove everyone (that still drives everyone today, honestly). Some of us kept coming back to help because we enjoyed learning how to do new things – some in our group had never even driven a nail before – and others pitched in out of simple curiosity; they wanted to see how a row of ugly, boxed containers would turn into anything that a sane person would want to live in.

Each container was spaced about fifty feet apart to help ensure that they would all catch a decent amount of cross wind for ventilation. I wasn’t really sure how that mattered, since they were just windowless boxes, until Oscar explained that each unit would be getting a series of windows on each side for relief in the summer months.

He burned up a good amount of diesel travelling to and from Jackson in that first week alone just getting everything he would need. I usually ended up going along just to fill in guard duty, though we rarely saw anyone out there, and he almost always had one of the larger men along on the trip as well to help him carry items. With all the stuff we brought back to the Bowl, we almost could have built a regular house.

He started by having Fred cut windows out of each unit with the torch that had been left behind by Howard’s group a few months earlier. These weren’t any small windows either; each “home” got two large sash windows on each side, directly across from each other, which Oscar said would produce a good cross breeze in the warmer months. These windows were cut to a specific size to match - you guessed it - all of the frame windows Oscar had managed to lift from stores in the surrounding city. These were all the high quality double paned affairs, as well. It was fun to watch him go shopping for this stuff. You could see that he was taking extreme pleasure in grabbing the best and most expensive versions of every item he could find, since price was no longer a barrier. It didn’t help (or perhaps Oscar considered it a great help) that, with the exception of items like sandbags and certain tools like axes, sledgehammers, crowbars, and the like, most home improvement stores were generally untouched by rioting or destruction.

So, as I said, each unit got the two sash windows, not to mention an assortment of smaller windows at various points.

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