Because of the Memorial Day Zombie
Shoot-a-thon and now with contact being made with the group across the street,
we have been spending a lot of time on the roof lately. And that has got me
thinking…
Langley is not exactly a hotbed of
activity by any stretch of the imagination. Certainly if you were going to go
out looting a place like Tulsa would be much more optimal. However, to use one
of the most overused cliché phrases from comic books, the zoms hit this place
hard and fast. We were extremely lucky in that we shut things down and
barricaded up pretty quickly.
Looking around with binoculars from
the roof, you can clearly see which businesses got overrun. The bank, the
pharmacy across the street, the Sonic, the real estate office, the local greasy
spoon… Those places had population in them, so they fell quick. But this was
zombies overrunning the place in search of flesh. the massive (and unexpected)
overrun has left many of the local businesses still fairly intact when it comes
to stock levels.
If you can look on the sunny side of
things, if people knew that zombie apocalypse was heading their way, they would
be out buying supplies like Hurricane Sandy was making another run at the
coast. Shelves would be picked clean. And what else does this mean? It means
there is still gas in the tanks in the three different gas stations in town.
There are still supplies on the shelves at the local hardware store and lumber
yard. And we just need to develop a way to get to those items safely. Because
that is the question you have to ask yourself. Is there is anything out there
amongst the local businesses that is worth dying for?
Rame
Fishing & Hunting:
Rame’s is one of those small town stores that stockpiles all kinds of
ammunition and weapons for hunting season. Bow and arrows, pistols, rifles, and
all kinds of ammo. The problem is that they are down in the heart of old
downtown. Not like Langley is that big but it is far enough away that our boys
would have to be out of contact. That is IF no one else has thought of looting
that place first. Of course, for all we know, the family that runs it could
still be holed up inside making a guns blazing stand. Of course, if we are
looking for weapons, shouldn’t we go scope out the police station too?
Pier 92 Liquors: So our parking lot shares space with the Grand Again consignment shop, the Party Mart convenience store and Pier 92 Liquors. At the time of the attack, Pier 92 was closed, which means their whole stock is still up for grabs. As I have said before, there is enough booze over there to keep us all drunk until rapture. I could lie and say that we need it for sterilization and such.
Westlake ACE Hardware & The Lumber Yard: Langley has two different locations that sell a variety of tools and supplies that could be very helpful for us when it comes to fixing things up around the store. ACE Hardware is just across the street and a little bit north of us and the local lumber yard (I forget its name now) is just far enough south that you wouldn’t want to walk there but it is close enough that from the roof, I think you could keep eyes on a sortie team at all times.
Langley Western Store: The last thing I want to do is for someone to catch me dressed up like Garth Brooks. I have no need for any sort of rhinestone button up shirts or wearing Wrangler jeans because “Wrangler butts drive cowgirls nuts.” However, their stock of steel-toed work boots, Carhart jackets, jeans, leather work gloves and such apparel could be key survival items. Yeah, it is May now but January is going to paint a whole different picture… What is more, the store is not exactly high profile when it comes to supplies for the end of the world. So we might have first dibs at the stock. Of course the dream is that the smokin’ hot chick that ran the place is still barricaded inside. She is/was half Columbian or something. A real natural beauty. I would want her to be part of the group for her chest size alone. But, like the rest of Langley, she might be staggering around looking for human flesh to feast on… but not in a good way.
I will have to think on what other
businesses we will need to loot and that is when I realized that we have an
untapped resource literally right next door. I will have to do some research
and double check on something…
