Despite the pounding headache and all
the hangover reliefs I have been taking, I cannot wait until morning to post
this. Absolutely astounding news. When dusk finally hit and people started to
retire, Lance, Joe, Kim and Judy were all up on the roof packing everything
away. They were nice enough to volunteer to do the clean-up. Plus, Lance has
this closing day ritual where he likes to take a six-pack of beer and down one
zombie per beer.
So we are all powering down from the
festivities and Joe comes sprinting down the ladder, yelling about a flashing
light. So we all clamored up to the roof. And then we saw it. The flashing
light.
Across Highway 82 and less than a
section line north of us is our local ACE Hardware store. The message was
coming from their rooftop. Now, I am not a Morse code expert but damn near
everyone knows S.O.S. from the play walkie-talkies your parents got you as a
kid for Christmas. Dot, dot dot, dash dash dash, dot, dot, dot. And by means of
a flashing light inside their building, we got that message.
I cannot help but think that whoever
is over there saw zero light coming from our windows when we are normally lit
up to a point where you can probably see us from the orbital space station. Maybe
they saw the flags hanging upside down. Maybe they heard all the .22 fire
coming from our roof during the tornado siren mission. Or maybe they heard our
Memorial Day party. However they spotted us, there is one guy over there at ACE
who would understand the significance of the upside down flags and how to Morse
code an SOS message…
Now, it is too dark to tell who is
sending the message but it is everything we can do to keep Kasondra and Janet
contained. Kasondra’s fiancée and Janet’s son, Brad Chambers, works at ACE
Hardware and he is this gung-ho, military, Sylvester Stallone loving guy who
wants nothing more than to be Rambo. And if I had money to bet, when the Zombie
Apocalypse started, Brad would have the wherewithal to react the same way we
did in barricading himself inside the store.
It is too dark tonight to tell who is
up there. But this is not some random sparking light. This is an intelligent
signal. We should know more in the morning.
I am exhausted but wanted to report
this. Now I am off to bed but I bet those girls don’t sleep a wink.
More soon…
