This entry is late. We made a huge
mistake. We were so concerned with staying safe and off the radar. We were
concerned about this so much that we never came up with a suitable plan to flag
down someone important if they came rolling through. And that happened this
morning.
Today, a large scale military convoy
came rolling down Highway 82. They were dragging with them a massive horde of
zoms. It was possibly the largest horde we had ever seen. The military was
moving at a speed just fast enough to outpace them and let the soldiers drop
them from the backs of the trucks if necessary. It looked like they were
herding them all up for slaughter, drawing them in with loud noise and “pied
piperring” them to some location that we were not certain of. Somewhere down
the road.
But what was clear was that they were
not stopping and members of our group wanted them to know we were here. They
wanted on that convoy and for some of them, it cost them their lives.
Several members of our group were
caught outside in the perimeter when the wave came through. While the buses
held, the zoms spilled over the tops of the smaller cars and SUVs. You cannot
imagine the crushing weight and the sheer mass of a horde this size. Joe
Charles did his best to stem the tide to give others a chance to escape but he
was lost to the weight of the horde.
Several members decided to go after
the military convoy by exiting out the back of the store on Kanen’s dirt bikes
that we snatched up during our sortie missions. But the massive group that came
around the backside of the store…
Kanen’s duct tape suit might have
protected him from bites but it did little to protect him from the sheer weight
of the onslaught. These things were faster and whipped up into a frenzy by the
military presence. Kanen thought he could maneuver through on his dirt bike and
get the convoy. He was wrong.
Justin and Eric did their best to try
to get to Kanen but it was too late. In the fight to re-secure the entrance… we
lost Shannon. She is gone. Kelsey sustained serious scratches on her legs. We
are uncertain about her state of being.
It was all we could do to secure the back
entrance and keep us all safe and in this attempt to save all our lives…
Alex has been bitten.
My son has been bit. The one person I
was intent on protecting… I cannot believe I am typing this.
My son has 48 hours to live.
