Code EMP by M.p. Mcdonald

Author:M.p. Mcdonald [McDonald, M P]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MP McD Publishing

Chapter 3

Leo read through the names of the other folks on the lake. There weren’t many. While the lake had a couple of dozen homes either right on or across the road from the lake, many were vacation homes and the owners weren’t around when the power went out. He and Bill had taken the bikes Bill kept at the lake and had made a circuit of the lake yesterday to see who was around.

Only five other families were at the lake when the EMP had hit. One neighbor said that another family had been there Saturday, and had traveled to a relatively nearby town for a festival. What was “nearby” in the Northwoods was still forty miles away. Leo didn’t think they would make their way back here anytime soon.

It was still early in the summer. His own kids had only just gotten out of school the day before Leo’s vacation had started. In fact, that’s why Michael had been sulking when they’d left. He’d wanted time to hang out with friends and only grudgingly had accepted that Leo had to work around the other ER doctors’ vacation schedules since he had been the last to put in his request.

As he contemplated how things would be going back home, he wondered if getting caught up here had been a blessing in disguise. Their house was in the suburbs of Chicago, and he couldn’t even imagine the chaos there right now.

They had combed through every vacant home, inventorying what supplies where there and carefully noting and crediting each home with what had been taken. When all of this mess was over, they didn’t want those people to return and feel cheated. If they showed up in the near future, they would be accepted into the group as they had already paid their dues.

Leo and Bill had split the supplies as evenly as they could, keeping one stockpile in a large shed on Bill’s lot, and another stockpile on the other side of the lake in a shed belonging to a couple who lived on the lake year round.

Although Leo had felt guilty that he had so little to offer, as the only doctor, he had been assured he would earn his keep tending to anyone’s illnesses and injuries.

In addition to food and supplies found in the vacant homes, all medications, whether expired or not, were stockpiled with Leo. All over the counter pain relievers were counted and every household given a minimum number and warned to use it only if absolutely necessary. A mild headache didn’t warrant three tablets of ibuprofen when that might be the only painkiller they could offer someone with a more serious injury.

His main concern was for a man across the lake who had type II diabetes. He hadn’t been on insulin, though, so he had that going in his favor. For now, the man had a few more weeks’ supply of medications that helped control his blood sugar. After that, he had nothing. Leo had created a very strict diet for the man to follow and it hadn’t been easy.

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