Nuclear Winter Armageddon by Bobby Akart

Author:Bobby Akart [Akart, Bobby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crown Publishers Inc.
Published: 2021-03-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

Monday, October 28

Near South Lake Tahoe, California

“Dirty snow,” muttered Owen as they got on the road again. “I can’t believe the fires have thrown out this much ash so quickly.”

Lacey repositioned her fanny in her seat. Ford had come a long way in making a comfortable riding spot for passengers since 1967. “You know, Peter said the war between India and Pakistan could cause what he called nuclear winter. That may be part of it.”

“That wasn’t even a week ago, Mom,” added Tucker.

“Your uncle said it was possible,” said Lacey, who turned sideways to address her son. “What else was in that medical kit?”

Tucker searched under their jackets and found one of the two-inch-thick, flat boxes. He poured the contents into his lap, where he examined them one by one.

“Well, here’s a first aid book, sort of. It’s really a booklet stapled together.”

“What’s it called?” Owen asked.

“Where there is no doctor,” Tucker replied. “It looks like instructions on first aid stuff to do on your own.”

His mom reached into the back seat, and Tucker gave her the booklet. “What else?”

“Here are four packets of tablets called IOSAT.” He turned the package slightly so the small amount of sunlight that filtered through the sky helped him read the fine print. “Potassium iodide. Thyroid blocking in a radiation emergency.”

Owen glanced at Lacey and then back at Tucker. He tried to maintain his composure while inside, he was cursing himself for not going through the supplies sooner. Of course, he thought to himself, the contents of the kit would be directly related to radiation exposure.

“Will you pass those up to your mom so we can decide if we should be taking them?”

“It might be too—” Lacey began before Owen abruptly cut her off.

“We’ve been out less than twenty-four hours.”

“They expired last year, Dad,” said Tucker as he handed them forward.

Owen sighed. “That doesn’t mean they’re bad. Maybe just a little less potent.”

While Lacey examined the packaging, Tucker reported on his next find. “This thing is called a RADTriage radiation detector. It’s like a credit card only it somehow detects radiation. Crap. It expires two years after it’s made.”

“What’s the date on it?” asked Lacey.

Tucker handed it forward. “Ten years ago.”

“That fallout shelter was worthless!” complained Owen. “We had a better chance of dying from being trampled or smoke inhalation than nuclear fallout. I wish we had a Geiger counter or something.”

Lacey shrugged. “They wouldn’t have worked anyway after the nukes hit.”

“Then we have these things,” added Tucker. “Blue surgical masks.”

He handed them to his mom, who shook her head side to side. “Now this is something we needed from the start. If the damn lights hadn’t gone out, we would’ve known about these masks and worn them as we left.”

“Hold on!” yelled Owen.

Without warning, their Bronco was sliding sideways out of control. He’d rounded a curve and suddenly found himself on an icy overpass crossing over a small stream. There were several cars piled together on top of the bridge, blocking their path.

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