Weathering The Storm (Book 5): Downburst by Soward Kenny & Kraus Mike

Author:Soward, Kenny & Kraus, Mike [Soward, Kenny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Survival
Publisher: Muonic Press Inc
Published: 2020-01-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Sara, Gatlinburg, Tennessee | 8:00 a.m., Sunday

Sara huddled in the driver’s seat of the van with her hands around a hot cup of coffee as the engine warmed up. She felt well-rested, more experienced, and ready for another scavenging adventure on the back roads of the Tennessee mountains. With any luck they’d find a generator and gasoline, as well as some other things she and Barb had written down the night before.

That was after she and Tex had double-wrapped the mysterious computer in tin foil and put it someplace safe. Tex had assured Sara that no radio signal could reach the computer, so there was no danger of anyone tracking it to them.

Something about the look in the man’s eyes and the tone of his voice was reassuring, and his confident words had given Sara the best night’s rest she’d had in some time, snuggling next to her daughter in the little girl’s bed.

Sara took one more sip of coffee and placed the cup in the console holder. She glanced back to where Rex stretched out across the back seat in his harness, tail wagging in anticipation of a new adventure. Then she put the van in drive and pulled out of the gravel driveway and away from the Subaru and the bullet-ridden Jeep. Sara had made Dion and Frank pull the vehicles to the cabin so they couldn’t be easily recognized, and that was also why they would be taking the van out today.

Much of the driveway was just mud by now, the flooding having swept away most of the gravel, so Sara was careful not to peel out and create a rut. She pulled the van onto Pine Bluff Road and coasted down the first incline until it curved sharply. The van wove down the hill, past Bird’s Nest and on down to Squirrel’s Nest, where everyone else was holed up in a single row of cabins perched on the side of the hill.

Sara pulled into one of the empty spots and then got out, slinging her rifle over her shoulder. The wind instantly blew her sideways, its chaffing gust like a slap in the face.

“Come on, boy,” Sara called to Rex, and the German Shepherd jumped out of the driver’s seat and came to heel at Sara’s side. She pushed the door shut, having to lean against it because of the wind, before going up the steps to Natasha and Dion’s cabin. Natasha met her and held open the door, making sure it didn’t blow back against the house.

Sara stepped inside and gave her friend a smile as Rex plunged past her with a happy yip. “How’s the cabin holding up?”

“Pretty well,” Natasha said, giving Sara a brief hug as she went by. “The moorings seem sturdy enough, but there’s a lot of creaking and groaning. Sounds like we’re on some old sailing vessel in a stormy sea.”

“I’ll bet,” Sara said with a nod. She had been worried about the cabins being blown off the side of the mountain, so Sara was glad to hear that Natasha wasn’t worried.

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