Korean Chaos by Pete Thorsen

Author:Pete Thorsen
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2017-08-27T03:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

So we had full power in the house. We had running water. We had what very, very few people had around here. I wondered just how much of the nation had been hit by the EMP. I wondered if all three of the ICBM’s had been used as EMP’s or if one or two had struck cities as regular nukes. And I wondered if I would ever find out any more about it.

I would assume that at least Hawaii and Alaska were still operating as normal. Would they send aid to the rest of the country? Just how much aid could they give us here? Now that America had been struck a terrible blow would other nations use this time to attack us? So many questions and no answers would be forthcoming.

It was still early spring but warm enough so I could at least start to enlarge the garden. After a normal breakfast that is just what I did. The old rototiller fired right up. Well not quite. It was as cantankerous as it always has been but it did start. And once started it ran well enough.

I had marked the corners of the new improved garden before I started the tiller. Now I ran the tiller over the ground breaking it up until I had the whole new plot done. Then I checked the gas and thinking I had enough I ran over the whole garden again at a ninety-degree angle from the first pass. Now the ground looked pretty good. We knew it would grow a garden because we had been testing it with a few plants for a few years now in that little garden area. We had been just playing and learning during those years; now we would be growing a garden for real.

I put the tiller away. I would likely make a complete pass over the whole garden again before we actually planted it. For now, it could just sit and wait for a spring rain to settle it down again. With the garden done for now I just walked slowly around the area then I walked out to the county road and stared at the place. I was looking at the place as others would see it and I was looking at ways I could best defend it.

There were only the two of us. If any force of people came here, they would over run us and take what we have here. Also, even one person who had a rifle and some time and sense could just pick us off from concealment when we walked outside. But we weren’t defenseless. I walked back to the house and put on a holster and put my favorite pistol in it. Karen saw me do it. She said nothing and I went back outside. I saw that Karen was getting the pre-made blackout curtains out and ready for hanging. Something we had planned for but never really expected to ever use.

Outside again I wondered if the riding mower would start.

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