The Hidden Prepper by Walker Robert J

Author:Walker, Robert J.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-04-11T00:00:00+00:00

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Alex Holder had just finished loading the last few sacks of supplies into the back of his ’82 Land Rover when the world as he—and pretty much everyone else in the continental United States—knew it ended.

Tall and lanky, like his younger brother, Ted, Alex looked more like a hippy than anything else. He wore his gray hair long, and his beard—which, unlike his hair, was still at least half brown and hadn’t turned all gray yet—was bushy enough to protrude over his chest. He wore shorts in all but the coldest weather and preferred going barefoot where he could, only wearing shoes when absolutely necessary.

The thick prescription glasses he wore, along with the tie-dyed shirts he had a penchant for, only added to the hippy look he had been unknowingly cultivating for most of his adult life. However, those who knew him well knew he was anything but a doped-up flower child. He was as sober as a judge, and not only on a day when he had to drive, a day like this one. He had quit drinking back in his early twenties and had never touched a drop since, and he had never done any sort of drug in his life.

Although Alex grew and raised most of what he needed on the homestead he and his brother had inherited from their late father, he nonetheless journeyed to the nearest town once every few months to buy the sort of things he couldn’t grow in this climate—mainly sacks of rice and grain, along with a bunch of canned goods, general-purpose antibiotics, and ammunition for his various firearms.

Unlike Ted, Alex had never really worked a regular job, aside from a four-year stint in the navy as a young man. He made a modest income from running courses on the homestead, where he would teach people about permaculture and off-grid living.

It was just as he was loading the first sack of rice into his Land Rover that the lights went out—all of them. The car next to his—a late model Mercedes SUV, into which another customer was loading boxes of canned goods from the trading store—immediately died as well. All its lights went off, and its purring motor, idling while the man’s wife waited impatiently in the passenger’s seat, playing on her iPad, cut out, too. Alex’s Land Rover’s lights stayed on, though, and he knew the motor would start right up, too.

“What the hell did you do, Raymond?” the man’s wife snapped from the front of the Mercedes. “You just cut the power to the car and my iPad!”

“I didn’t do a damn thing!” the man yelled back. “How the hell do you think I was able to do all of that, huh? Open your eyes and look around you, Muriel. There’s been some sort of power blackout! All the lights are out everywhere … except this guy’s,” he said, turning to Alex. “Man, this car … I just got the damn thing serviced, and now it’s cutting out on me like this?”

Alex ignored the arguing couple and took out his phone.

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