Miracles by Thomas A. Watson & Tina Watson

Author:Thomas A. Watson & Tina Watson [Watson, Thomas A. & Watson, Tina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Dystopian | Pandemic
Publisher: Thomas A. Watson/A-Poc Press
Published: 2019-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Gollum meets Arthur

It was the middle of summer and Shawn was standing on the top of the levee looking out over the expanse that would be the lake. He was still having problems believing they had moved a hill that used to occupy most of the area that would be the lake. Because they had moved so fast, Arthur had relented and expanded the lake and when it was filled, it would be just over fifty acres instead of twenty-five.

The first thing Joseph had done was dig the diversion ditches for the stream from the west and the stream from the north. That alone amazed Shawn. The diversion ditches really couldn’t be called ‘ditches’ because they were five feet wide and three feet deep. Unlike the streams, the water just moved slowly along the diversion ditches. When he’d asked Joseph about it, Joseph had pulled him to the side and explained the ditches only dropped one foot from where they diverted water until they reached the main stream bed further down where they used to join together.

A smile broke out on Shawn’s face remembering the lone house on the hill they’d had to remove. Arthur said they’d only known them by name and never visited them. To Shawn, that meant the people were assholes because Arthur and Wendy were the coolest people on the planet. Being Arthur, he’d gathered a group up and emptied the house, sheds, and small barn. What was taken out was stacked neatly in the shops, containers around the house or valley, and in the five other small farms inside the perimeter fence while Arthur stood outside telling his group how they were going to tear apart the house to save as much of the material as they could. Knowing what Arthur was doing because he wanted to ‘salvage’ what he could, Wendy walked over, cranked up a bulldozer, and knocked down the house and all the buildings.

Shawn was never so thankful for Wendy, even though Arthur ranted for several hours. What would’ve taken them nearly a week to do, tear down the house and buildings, Wendy had done in fifteen minutes.

Hearing the whine of diesel engines, Shawn looked to his left at the south end of the levee. The drainage ditch for the west stream had been blocked off yesterday and a small group was closing the last hundred yards of the levee off where it ran into a slope. Even with Arthur’s projections, the edge of the lake would be over three hundred yards from the end of the dam. Arthur didn’t care, he wanted the gap closed, just in case.

Turning back out over the lake, Shawn just shook his head. Rocks covered the lakebed and what would be the water side of the levee. One thing he had learned, the ground in Arkansas was more rock than dirt. A week into the project, Shawn was starting to worry if they would have enough dirt to make the levee because Arthur had wanted dirt only.

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