Yesterday, I decided
to break my rule. The only way I was going to let this happen if I was going to
be part of it, so Alex and I joined the scouting mission to Adair. Now, to
explain, Adair is the town where I am from that is about 10 minutes away from
Langley. It is a short and easy drive. So equipped with a number of weapons and
a handpicked contingent of people, we made a stealth mission to Adair.
Our target was Adair
High School. The goal was to get the spare keys to the bus fleet and raid the
cafeteria to get the large quantity, economy sized canned food to help increase
our food stores.
I wish I could tell
you that we didn’t fire a shot but there was quite a few zoms staggering
around. From the looks of things, the zoms looked to be more migratory than
Adair populace. We didn’t see anyone wearing an Adair Warriors letter jacket or
“local” looking clothes. Still, the place was far from overrun. Everything was
manageable and Alex carried himself quite well.
We got into the
school and looted the spare keys. Surprisingly, some of the guys that went with
us – with Brian in the lead – decided to grab some textbooks to give the group
something to read. (I think there is something to be said about reading for fun
and reading to learn. The textbooks could be helpful in training the brain.)
We then went to the
bus barn and selected three of the best buses from the fleet. We pulled around
to the cafeteria to load up as much of the useable food that we could salvage.
The plan once we get these back to the store will be to convert these things
into rolling fortresses with bunks, food, and supplies. However, one will be
converted to haul extra fuel for the fleet.
Now,
we are still going to be sticking with the Year One Plan. We are using the
buses only as an emergency contingency. If a roving horde came through and
pushed through the front doors and we had to escape out of the back of the
store, we have the buses as the “bug out” plan.
I
do feel safer with that contingency plan on the table and hopefully we never
have to use it…
More
soon.
