That entry title
seems a lot more sexual in nature than I intended… So, I have talked before
about one of the most frustrating things that we have been forced to deal with
is the sheer lack of knowledge. We are calling these things zombies for lack of
a better term. Who is to say that is not what they are? But where did they come
from? What has caused this? Is this a worldwide pandemic or is it just
restricted to the United States? Or just Oklahoma? We just don’t know.
We gained access to a
little more insight because of one member of the group that made it over from
ACE Hardware. Shannon Fox was working as a police dispatcher in Vinita. She was
literally working the switchboard (technically it is all computerized now) when
everything started falling to pieces. While she was not standing side by side
with the sheriff of Craig County, she was monitoring calls for ambulances, fire
trucks, and all sorts of 911 calls. Car crashes, calls for what they thought
was domestic disturbances at first… Then things really started to fall apart.
Deputies and officers were sending panicked calls of “sickly” and “mangled”
perpetrators attacking people. And gunshots were not taking them down. Bath
salts, meth heads, tweekers hopped up on PCP? The police didn’t know. After
all, cops are trained to shoot above the heart or in the knee. They want the
subject down but lethal force is usually only authorized when their lives are
in jeopardy.
Shannon began to see
a high concentration of calls from both Vinita and Langley. And she heard the
main sheriff on the phone with some federal agency giving an alert about
something called Kharon. Out of our group, I was the only one to pick up on
that and I made sure that is what she said.
If you don’t remember
your eighth grade mythology class, Kharon (or sometimes spelled Charon) was the
skeleton dude in Greek mythology that ferried the newly deceased across the
River Styx into the land of the dead. He basically was the template for the
Grim Reaper. You pronounce it Kay-ron. I know this seems geeky and
insignificant but consider this. If there is a name for this crisis, it was
probably labeled by the government, which means it is a large enough
clusterhump, like Operation: Fast and Furious, to get an official title. Which
means there is probably a manila folder somewhere stamped all over it with
words like “Classified” “Eyes Only” and probably more than one biohazard
symbol.
Which basically
means… we are screwed.
Shannon and one of
the deputies at the station must have realized how bad things were getting
around town and decided to bug out quick. Of course, it was not before pulling
an Alex and loading down the back of Shannon’s pickup with a healthy supply of guns
and ammo from “the cage” where they keep all the weapons in the sheriff’s
office. Shannon made it out of the city. Her deputy did not. She won’t talk
about it much but I get the impression that he made have held off a mob of
zoms, allowing her to escape. Her plan was to head through Langley to get to
Spavinaw where her family is located. A particularly large shamble of zoms
diverted her off the road and she made it inside ACE before they went into
lockdown.
So, all things
considered, I guess it is finally time to talk about it. I swear on Monday, I
will address Zero Hour.
