Three Days After Impact by Jacqueline Druga

Author:Jacqueline Druga [Druga, Jacqueline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-27T07:00:00+00:00

October 15

I had a bad dream last night. A nightmare. I dreamt that I didn’t make it to shelter and saw the meteor coming. I watched it sail across the sky and smash into the earth. Then I woke up. Not because the dream ended. I woke up to gunshots. The man down the street was chasing someone who was trying to steal from him.

Has it come to that?

My mother said she wasn’t worried, but I could see the look on her face. I told her I was scared about us driving alone, and she said we weren’t. That Tom from Cleveland was going to come meet us and would be at our house any day.

Where is she finding these people? Tom from Cleveland? Apparently he’s a teacher or something David and my mom have been talking to.

I spoke to Mackenzie on the phone; she sounded a lot better. She said she and her father were going to register for the city shelter. That made me feel better, until I watched the news.

They are only letting eight thousand people in. They showed them bringing heavy equipment and stuff into Johnston Medical Center. The shelter will be in the sub basements. The equipment is in case there is a collapse. They erected a fence around the complex and already mobs have shown up.

Registration hasn’t even opened yet. It won’t open for three days and people are camping out there. I don’t get it. What is safer at the Center than your own home? Can’t these people make a shelter in their home? Has to be the heating thing. I guess people are scared of freezing to death. I thought for sure they’d try to keep the power going. They may; then this whole ‘run to the city for help’ thing will be in vain. And all those people will feel dumb for not preparing to stay home.

David thinks the lights will go out purely because no one will man the stations.

That means no heat. We have kerosene heaters, but how long would they last?

I suppose if my mother was planning for us to wait it out we’d have more kerosene. I thought she bought more, but there are only three cans in the living room.

So much is changing every day. I hate watching the news but can’t stop. Gas stations have lines backed up for blocks. They say gasoline will run out shortly. Grocery stores have police officers and people are fighting and panicking.

I’m worried and I’m scared. A part of me just wants this meteor to come and get this madness over with.

I’m glad you’re safe and away from it all.

Vi-Vi

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