We Go On (THE DELL) by Woods Stephen

Author:Woods, Stephen [Woods, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2013-12-10T08:00:00+00:00

Over the next three weeks, we moved tons of supplies to the Dell. Jim and L.B. were getting things organized and Jim's wife Gwen had joined him out there. She left their two children at the compound in Lebanon and went at Jim's request to set up the General Store and inventory the supplies being brought in by Dave's crews. The store now looked like a real store and the small stock room in back became filled to overflowing. I had sent word to Jim about the house to be used by Doc and he had gotten it set up and all the supplies that Doc had been able to scavenge at University Med. were inside and waiting for Doc to arrive. L.B. had even started using the single barn in the village to store some of the bigger items. Thanks to Dave, we now had two huge generators capable of providing power on a limited basis to the whole town. Dave had also found two forty-foot long, ten-inch wide steel I-beams that would be used to support the gate into the Dell and John Hendricks went to work getting them set in huge concrete filled holes on either side of the road coming in.

Along with the generators and everything else, the four fuel tanker trailers had been moved and we had a serviceable fuel farm that would supply our needs for at least a year. Longer if we used conservation and limited our driving. To this end, Dave had brought several ATVs that the security guys could use to accomplish a roving patrol around the inside of the perimeter and to move guards to the distant guard towers. This would keep us from having to use the less fuel efficient larger vehicles.

Pressure treated six-inch by six-inch posts had been brought in and set in the dirt filled Hesco containers at the gate to be made into guard towers and the same would be used at intervals around the inside of the wall to provide complete observation along the outside perimeter. About half of the front side of the T-wall barrier had been placed and we were moving at a pace that I hoped we could sustain. If we could, The Dell would be ready to move into in about two months.

In his spare time, and I told him I couldn't figure out when that would have been, Hendricks had dug a pond in a low muddy area in the field to the east of town. He'd used the backhoe and the natural spring had already started to fill it. He told me he knew the animals would need a water source and this would keep people from having to carry water to them. I congratulated him on a brilliant idea and he told me he couldn't take credit for it. It had been Judy Aikens, our agriculturist, who had suggested it. I told him I'd thank her the next time I saw her.

One of the most important finds we had made had been by Jenny Moss and Bob Thompson again.

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