So, at the start of the week I told
you about the plan with the sirens. If you missed out, we snagged a few SUVs
from the Langley police station. Before the freeze goes away, the plan was to
use the sirens to try to lure out any LIVING beings that might still be holed
up somewhere inside Langley.
Not every plan is a home run. We saw
zero survivors. No one came out of any of the buildings, businesses or homes. I
guess it is not a huge surprise. I mean, really, after this long of time you
would think that some survivor would make their way to the best place in the
whole town to get some food. I guess the thing is if they were going to make
their way here, they would have done so by now.
Okay, so this does not seem like a
really big deal on paper. (Or on a computer screen as this case is.) But I want
you to stop and think about this. Langley was a population of around 800
people. 800 people gone. Wiped off the earth. AND we are the only living people
in approximately a nine mile radius.
We have not gone for explorations in
Adair, Spavinaw, Disney, or Vinita. But it is fairly safe to say that we are
the only living people in a nine mile radius. This is Oklahoma. This is not
Montana or Alaska where there are vast stretches of unpopulated areas. And to
know that there is NO ONE else around in this entire town, it is fairly
disconcerting.
Where I used to live, our home was
pretty remote. I had a massive cattle pasture as my backyard. If I was out
working in the yard and I had to take a piss, I didn’t run inside. I would
barely do a look around. Just whip it out and do your business. My theory was
if someone came down the road and could see it from that distance, hey, might
as well be proud of it.
If I were so inclined, I could walk
out to the intersection of Highway 28 and 82 buck naked and no one would see
me. A fairly major intersection where there used to be streams of cars rolling
along… and now, nothing. And if you go out there now, it is weird because the
traffic lights are still going. I don’t know how Langley still has electrical
power but I am not looking that gift horse in the mouth.
I could not imagine walking down the
streets of 71st and Memorial down in Tulsa and see zero living
people. I have commented before on how the world has gotten quieter without
everyone running around. I could not imagine being down in a major metropolis
and having everything be stock still quiet.
It is just one of the major changes
that you have to deal with during this whole thing.
