Overconfidence can be your downfall.
I think the loss of four of our members proves that. Honestly, looking over
game plan, I really thought we were solid. I thought that there was no way that
the zombies outside could breech our defenses and get into our facility. Well,
I freely admit it. I was wrong.
It is not a question of “if” zoms are
going to get in here; it is a question of when. So we have been working on
plans inside the store in case we experience another breech in security. As I
have mentioned in the past, we have been condensing down aisles and shelving
whenever possible and the top decks have been emptying out with our consumption
and restocking of product. One thing that we do still have an abundance of is
shopping carts and cardboard from the stock boxes.
So alternating on the ends of every
aisle, we have created barricades where we have lashed shopping cards together
using bailing wire from the cardboard baler. Then to make sure you don’t get
tangled up in the carts, we’ve covered them in cardboard and duct tape. We also
loaded the bottoms of the carts with 40-pound dog food bags to give them a
little more weight and stability.
Here is the theory. All of us can do a
military vault onto and over the carts themselves. They are high enough so that
you can get over them quickly but you can still easily look over the tops of
the carts to see down the aisle.
Given that zoms rarely pick up their
feet as they shamble along, vaulting over a cart is going to pretty difficult.
The whole point of the barricades is that they buy you time. If we are breeched
and you are being chased, you vault over the carts and it delays the zoms
enough so that you can get to the top decks. If you are out of their reach, you
are safe while we can regroup and retake the store.
Hunter made it a point to stock two
64-ounce bottles of Wesson cooking oil on the top deck by every barricade. His
theory that you drop a Wesson bomb at the feet of zoms and they won’t be able
to stand, much less bite you.
The goal will be to all get together
so I have tasked Luke, Lance, and Joe with finding a way to bridge all the top
decks together with scaffolding so we can walk amongst the top decks without
ever having to drop to floor level. (Again, this is keeping the crew busy.) And
a lot of people want to help with this concept. I figure we can have this
problem solved and implemented in a week or so.
Now, I am not a fool. Obviously, this
intended to stop a breach of a dozen or so zoms. In the event that, let’s say,
the Produce roll up door was battered down and a horde was rolling through
here, we would have to abandon the store. I have no doubts of that. But,
honestly, I cannot even fathom that happening.
Still, I like this proactive side that
everyone is showing. We need to keep that going.
