EMP Survival In A Powerless World | Book 22 | The Coldest Night by Walker Robert J

Author:Walker, Robert J. [Walker, Robert J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | EMP | Survival
Published: 2020-10-05T04:00:00+00:00

21

The first thing Jack did was turn off the Humvee’s headlamps. He then swerved off the street, drove across the sidewalk, and into the nearby house's front yard. He hoped that the approaching vehicle hadn’t seen his lights, but that was probably a futile hope since he had seen theirs.

“Who is that?” Kate asked, her tone betraying the urgency in her voice.

“If we’re lucky,” Jack answered, “they’re people like us, who were ready for something like this and are now doing what we’re doing and trying to get out of this place.”

“And if we’re not lucky, Dad?” Susan asked.

“Then those are the people who pulled the trigger on this whole disaster,” Jack said grimly. “Get your guns ready, people, and put in earplugs in case we have to fire from inside the Humvee. I’m praying it doesn’t come down to that. A firefight is our absolute last resort, but we need to be ready for a worst-case-scenario situation.”

As the vehicle got closer, Jack did his best to scan the surroundings for an escape route. He had seen a few abandoned cars on the street, but now that his headlamps were off, visibility was close to nil due to the darkness, the wind, and the snow. All they could see were the two baleful headlamps coming ever closer in the howling darkness.

Before switching off the lights, Jack had seen that there were large open spaces around the nearby house; if needed, he might be able to veer off around the side of the house and tear through the backyard. He hoped that it wouldn’t come down to that, for not only would a car chase at high speed through the thick darkness and howling wind be dangerous due to the possibility of a wreck, but it could also end up with him getting hopelessly lost in the suburbs. Without any visibility to orient himself, it could take them hours to get out of this place … if they even escaped at all.

Everyone in the Humvee watched with bated breath as the vehicle got closer. And when it slowed down to a stop near them, they knew their headlamps were spotted earlier. Jack kept the Humvee in gear, ready to blast off in an instant, and the others readied their firearms.

They could barely make out what kind of vehicle it was, but the dim halo of light around it, created by the reflection of the headlamps off the wind-blown snow, revealed it to be a Humvee. And when Jack and the others saw the vague silhouettes of men with rifles getting out of the SUV, they knew these were no friendly survivors or civilians.

“I’m gonna try outrun ‘em,” Jack said to the others. “And it’s gonna be a bumpy ride. Get your heads down so they can’t see you through the windows. Get ready and hold on.”

The soldiers could hear the Humvee’s rumbling motor over the howl of the wind, and they knew someone was in it. There were six of them, along with a driver who stayed in the vehicle.

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