The Dog Hunters: An Apocalyptic Ice Age Story by Silveira John

Author:Silveira, John [Silveira, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Ice Age
Publisher: Riley Creek Books
Published: 2017-05-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 1

August 24

The Cascades had been snow-covered from their bases to their peaks all summer long while temperatures in Yakima, typically over a hundred degrees this time of year, had gone over seventy-five just once in three years. It had long been clear to Clayton—and billions of others—the new ice age had begun.

After months of preparation, this morning he was taking his family south to Los Angeles, where they had relatives. Ice age or not, Southern California still had a growing season, and a garden might be all that stood between getting anything at all to eat and starvation.

He considered himself lucky to finally get away. They’d left Yakima just before sunrise. For the first eighty miles the road was no longer maintained so travel along I-82 was slow. But as they reached Hanford the road got better. From here on the Army kept clear a few roads that led west to the coast and south into California.

It was almost 9:30 when he crossed the Columbia River and ten minutes later he turned west onto I-84, at Umatilla, Oregon, a road maintained because it serviced the hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River and the nuclear facilities at Hanford. He glanced in the rearview mirror to see how the kids were doing. Wedged between sleeping bags on the passenger’s side, his ten-year-old son, Robert, was trying to go to sleep. Robert had the dark hair and thin lips of his mother and he’d inherited her doleful expression that masked whatever was going on inside either of them.

On the other side of the van was Danielle—beautiful, blonde, thin, and barely five-foot-two. She wore a black T-shirt with red lettering across the front that read:

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