I know what you are going to say,
“What are they, nucking futs?” But, over the weekend, we were kicking around
ideas about re-arming the tornado siren. Trust me, the idea was dismissed just
about as soon as it was brought up and that lead us in a similar line of
thinking but with a better idea.
As it is still very cold and zombie
activity is at a low rate, so if we were going to do something like this, it
had to be now. The goal was that we wanted to get our hands on a cop car, a
fire truck, or an ambulance. Lance was convinced that he could rip the siren
out of the vehicle and either mount it on a short bus or the top of the store.
Stick with me.
The goal was to cruise through
Langley with the siren blaring. With what is left of the zombies in town now
popsicles, it would be the best time to let any other survivors out there know
that we were here. Look the odds of someone being hold up in a rural farm house
or maybe living off all the food and supplies in a gated community like the
Coves would be entirely plausible if they were the only family still alive.
Is it possible that there is a family
of survivalists out living on the land? The odds are slim but it is possible.
We were thinking of a way that we could broadcast our position to let people
know we were here.
Yes, it does open the door to
potential altercations with people who may not be as amicable as we are… but
that is a choice everyone is willing to take. If you have lasted this long in
the zombie apocalypse, it is not because you are lucky. Lucky is six weeks. You
don’t get to this stage of the game without skill. And those skills could
benefit our group.
So the mission was on. Langley is
small time but not so small. We have a fire house, a full cop force, and an EMT
station for 911 to dispatch. Sure, we looted those places for what was left of
their supplies after it got freezing but no one thought to loot a siren. The
goal was to go at dusk. And here is the kicker…
Alex wanted to go.
I cannot blame him. We have been
cooped up for quite some time. Being buttoned up for the cold weather has not
helped. I was not a big fan of the idea but I knew Alex wanted to go. The only
way I would agree to it was if I went with him.
So the crew was Eric
(weapons/experience), Kasondra (weapons), Lance (tech/navigator), Kimber, Alex,
and me. Kimber wanted to get out the store and I was genuinely surprised at how
well she handled herself. We did this on Sunday night.
No one fired a shot. Zombie
encounters were limited to one inside the EMT station which was dispatched
quietly by Lance. We got two of the police SUVs fired up and drove them back to
the store, parking them inside the perimetered parking lot.
Lance is going to work today to get
one of the sirens powered and mounted up on top of the store. We might be able
to use it to signal passersby if we need to and the group is planning patrols
of Langley and the surrounding areas before the thaws.
Yesterday was a good day… More soon.
