They say to get over a fear you need
100 positive instances surrounding that fear to conquer it. So if you are
afraid of snakes, you need 100 positive instances with snakes and you won’t be
scared of them anymore. When we lost Fred, no one even remotely thought about
another sortie mission. We overstepped our bounds. We overreached. And we lost
Fred for our greed.
I will tell you right now that Fred would
disagree with all of them. That ammo could be the difference between all of us
living and dying at some point down the road. I know for a fact that Fred felt
he did not die in vain. Regardless, no one is really thinking about going back
outside for a while. Eventually, I am sure we will start up sortie missions
again.
Well, in talking with Brian, I think
we have found a reason to head out. We are going to wait until it gets cold and
we have freezing temperatures on our side but Brian is thinking about time for
after Year One. How are we going to pack up and leave out of here in May?
We mulled over a variety of options
and I think we have a pretty good plan but it is also not something that we
have to hurry up and get finished right now. We can take our time and plan
everything out very well. Again, contingencies for contingencies. That is the
key.
So, the goal is to get to Adair
Schools and liberate at least three buses from their bus barn. Brian saw them
from the highway on their way here and he even had the sortie team check on the
way into Pryor to see if they were still available. (Again, Brian thinks long
term so he was already kicking these ideas around when I came to him.)
The plan is to strip them down into
mobile fortresses that we can sleep on, carry food on, and on one bus carry
fuel reserves. With the size and durability, I feel that school buses will make
excellent choices. I think we could make bunk beds, carry more than enough
supplies, and travel far enough to reach some military base, safe haven, or
port in the storm where other survivors have barricade themselves safely.
So if you are out there… If you are
reading this and your situation is better than ours, please let us know.
Contact us. If you have internet, you have email. Please let us know so we can
plot a destination and start calculating fuel needs.
If anyone is out there… Please, let
someone be out there…
