I know what I am about to type is
going to seem rather ludicrous but like the old saying goes, “Desperate times
call for desperate measures.”
Back when we made our sortie trip to
Adair Schools to steal our three “bug out” buses, we actually left behind a
fairly large contingent of their bus fleet. Did you know that your average
school bus is over 40 feet in length? And Adair had a grand total of 13 buses
in its fleet of vehicles. There were ten buses over there just sitting or 400
feet worth of potential fence line.
Putting a driver and shooter on each
bus and drivers in the cars to deliver the teams, we totally cleared out
Adair’s bus barn in one trip. Getting them all back to Langley, we then
proceeded to park these buses so that their front fender was touching the rear
bumper – essentially giving us 400 feet worth of palisade fencing. That took
approximately one hour. (Again, many hands make light work.)
In Hour 2, we were off to Ketchum
where 10 more buses and 400 more feet of palisade fencing were acquired. Ketchum
took slightly longer because we had to break into the school and locate the
spare keys within the office. Again, we brought them all to the parking lot and
parked them fender to bumper.
Hopefully by now, you can see the
direction that we are taking this plan. Vinita had more buses than we had
drivers available. Pryor was the same way. But with all of these “acquired”
buses, we proceeded to construct a fence of buses around the front parking lot
of the store. This creates yet another barrier between us and the zoms that
prevent them from making direct contact with any of our doors.
The accomplished goal was to close off
the northern and southern sections of the parking lot with buses. With the wide
berth of the bus, you can walk along the tops of them if you need to. Note,
they are parked on both sides respectively so that you can get into the buses
from the interior of the parking lot (not the exterior). This provides an
emergency shelter if you are caught outside and the top exit hatches allow you
to get up on the roof via a retractable rope ladder that we made from wooden
pallet planks and lengths of rope from Jenny’s hardware store.
The plan tomorrow is to seal off the
western length of the parking lot that runs along the highway… but there is a
reason why we are not using buses for the west wall.
We even parked one bus perpendicular
to the others within the south wall line so that you can enter through the
front door of the bus and exit our the emergency exit in the back.
In an ideal world, it would be nice to
create an entire motte-and-bailey design where we ringed the entire store with
a barricade of vehicles but the backside of the store is just far too open,
even with the length of barbed wire fencing along the north side.
