The crew made a run to Vinita to give
it a survey. The place is a ghost town. Looking around, the crew reported that
there is still a lot of stock on the shelves. If you are going to interpret
things by that, we have to believe that Vinita succumbed pretty quickly. I
still have to contend that if people knew that the zombies were coming, they
would have been dashing to the store and stockpiling supplies. But there was
still a lot of supplies on the shelves which means that people were either too
afraid to venture out or no longer had functioning cerebral cortexes saying,
“Go and get food.”
Now, it was not like the place was evacuated.
Fred said that you could see signs of struggles, signs of gunfire, and some
fires had burned quite a few buildings out but had not consumed the entire
town. And while the place was certainly not a hotbed of activity, they expected
to see a larger contingent of zoms than they did. Mostly what they saw were
stragglers. But what did they not see?
Bodies.
If there were no bodies around, it
leads me to believe that the entire town was infected and turned. There might
have been a few pockets of resistance but Fred and the crew said there were
zero signs of life. So there were enough zoms staggering about to consume every
last morsel of meat. And then, when the food ran out, the zoms all collectively
decided to shuffle on down the road.
Vinita does have access to the Will
Rogers Turnpike. They could have all decided to shuffle north to Joplin or
south to Tulsa.
So, good news. Walmart was ours for
the picking. They came back with a carload of ammunition from their hunting and
fishing section. Now, granted, Vinita’s Walmart is not a Supercenter. It is one
of the smaller Walmarts in the area but there was still quite a bit of good
items for us to add to our inventory.
I was really surprised that someone
had not already looted the place. This has to mean that Vinita fell pretty
quickly. It was a ten man crew. They went out with two vehicles and came back
with a caravan of ten. And these were not just small economy cars. These were
big trucks, a Suburban, and vans.
Once they were all back at the store,
all of the commandeered vehicles were then placed nose to trunk, actually
touching each other, to begin to form a barricade around the entire parking
lot. Our theory is that with enough vehicles, we could make a fence of vehicles
around the parking lot, giving us another barricade between us and the
relentless army of the shambling dead.
It is going to take a pretty big
contingent of vehicles to wall off the parking lot but it seems that so far, we
have the whole town of Langley to cull through to search for vehicles to add to
the barricades. Time is something we have plenty of and cars do not seem to be
in short supply at this point…
I think the crew’s next target is to
go and investigate Pryor and see what kind of shape that city is in. It could
be a good run because Pryor has three pawn shops and a pretty well stocked
Walmart. Could be a gold mine as far as ammo.
More soon.
