Earth's Survivors Life Stories: Jack and Maria by Wendell G Sweet & Geo Dell

Author:Wendell G Sweet & Geo Dell [Sweet, Wendell G]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-17T06:00:00+00:00

FOUR

The Farm House

It was the most tired I had ever been. I laid my head down after my shift at watch and I was gone for a little while before sunrise.

The sun is down all the way here. I went back upstairs. Nothing on the horizon: That time of evening when the sun is down and the moon has yet to rise. Very dark: Can't see anything in any direction. I thought they must be all sleeping in the barn, but I heard some movements out near where I... Never mind what I did there, I'll get to that soon enough, I guess. I only heard it once, but I know damn well it's one of them... Some of them...

I don't believe the whiskey is going to make it to daylight, but I have a feeling I'm not going to make it to daylight either... Feeling funny now, not myself... I'll try to get this done...

It was late morning before we were all up and scavenging what we could from what was left of that store…...

Oswego NY: Jack and Maria

Late Morning

They spent the morning scouring the store for useful items. After they had loaded the Jeeps, they left the abandoned shopping center and began to work their way through the seemingly empty city, when they reached the first bridge they were forced to stop.

The bridge was still standing, that was not the problem. The problem was that it was packed bumper to bumper with wrecked and burned out cars and trucks. A large city bus also sat within the wreckage. Dave and Jack scrambled over the cars to see what had caused the huge accident.

At first it seemed that the wreckage went on forever. But as they neared the second bridge the problem became apparent.

The bridge, or more properly put, the twisted steel girders and huge chunks of concrete that had been the bridge, lay at the bottom of a deep gorge, partially submerged in the water. Reluctantly they scrambled back over the cars to tell the others that were waiting.

“Think we could move them?” John asked, as Jack and Dave returned. “I saw a wrecker back up the highway a bit; we could go back and get it.”

“Wouldn't do any good,” Jack said his voice somber. “The second bridge is nearly gone. Even if it weren't, I don't see this one standing much longer either. We took a look at the underside from the other bridge, and a couple of the pilings are cracked pretty badly. I wouldn't trust it. There is another bridge though, looks like only a couple of blocks over. It's still up, but I can't tell from here whether it has traffic on it, the sides are enclosed.”

“Which way, Jack?” Glenn asked.

“Looked like down a little way,” Jack said, pointing back the way they had come. “Take the next right, and it should be only a couple of blocks away.”

“Well,” Maria said, trying to sound positive, “let’s go find out.”

They piled back into the Jeeps, and after some careful maneuvering, managed to turn them around and head back the way they had come.

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