The success of the first sweeper team
with beds and a guarantee of electrical power for what every five thousand
gallons of propane will buy us bolstered the whole crew. So today at breakfast,
we agreed on a second sortie mission into the outside world. But this time
around we are going to have two different objectives. One is going to go out
into Langley and the other team is going to do things to police our parking
lot.
The goal of the people who are going
to police the parking lot have a pretty good mission. First, the front
entrances have been barricaded with this rough and tumble plywood/particle
board that was four feet wide and eight feet high. This stuff is designed to
hold pallets of product literally weighing tons. So we used these heavy shelves
to reinforce the doors to the front of the store. Even if the zoms get so
desperate that they break through the glass doors, we have not just sealed them
off with this plywood.
Using the electric pallet jacks, the
Walker Stacker, and the big propane powered forklift, we actually moved large
stacks of industrial pallets of dog food in front of the doors.
See, businesses with lots of foot
traffic often have two sets of doors. The theory is that by the time the second
set of doors has opened, the first set of doors will have closes, therefore
lessening the amount of air conditioning and heating that is lost outside.
So, we sealed the doors with the
plywood. Then, we jammed pallets worth of stacked and shrink wrapped dog food
up against the plywood to keep it from being forced in. (Those pallets
literally weigh tons and we have two stacks of pallets stacked against each
door.) Because of the size of the plywood, they cannot pull the shelving
through the doorframe. And then even if they do, they have the dead weight of
these pallets in between them. And THEN there is a second set of doors that are
also barricaded with more dog food and pallets of non-perishable cans.
So while we are pretty confident, we want
to further protect ourselves by parking cars up against the doors so any zoms
could not directly get their hands on the doors without substantial work.
But before we barricade off the north
door, we want to use the pallet jacks (we have one electric and four
hand-powered jacks) to bring in the pallets of potting soil that was drop
shipped out at the front of the store inside.
And then if things go really well….
See, we share a parking lot with a convenience store and a liquor store. And
that liquor store could be ripe for the picking…
