American Exit Strategy: Book 1 by Mark Goodwin
Authors: Mark Goodwin
Tags: Fiction, Science-Fiction, Literature & Fiction, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Religion & Spirituality, Christian fiction, Christianity, Dystopian, Christian Books & Bibles
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walking his two Huskies and came over to say Hi. "You guys see what's going on in Detroit?"
Jack wanted to seem like he knew what was going on and gave Blaine the abbreviated version of Matt's Publix story.
"No kidding!" Blaine responded. The conversation turned to provisions and Blaine explained he had a couple of weeks’ worth of dry goods he had bought for hurricane season. He also mentioned that he had a revolver and a shotgun if things got nasty. Matt smiled and gave a nod but didn't tip his hand. Part of the prepper code was to maintain operational security or OPSEC which entails keeping your mouth shut about what you have and how much of it.
"Are you guys all set?" Blaine asked.
"We can get by for a while." Matt said.
"Can you take care of yourself if things get bad?" Blaine inquired of Matt.
"We have a pistol." Matt said. "And then some." he thought to himself.
Jack thought about it, then said. "Things are getting kinda rough around here anyway. Maybe I should get something. What do you guys recommend?"
Blaine started ".357"
".357 is a nice gun" Matt commented, "but it only has six rounds. And it takes a while to reload. Glock makes a .45 that takes a 13 round magazine plus one in the pipe. Once those are out, it’s a matter of seconds, not minutes to change the magazine. It’s a popular gun which makes it easy to get extra magazines and parts for it. They are also the gun of choice for many law enforcement agencies and militaries around the world because of their dependability."
"Wow" Blaine added, "I hope I never need 14 rounds."
"I hope I never need one round." Matt chuckled.
CHAPTER 10
"The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty."
Proverbs 22:3
Matt went to the shed and got the hurricane shutters out. He started to place them on all of the windows that were inside of the back fence.
Karen came out and asked "What are you doing?"
"Just putting up the hurricane shutters to harden our house. It will make it harder to get into and also bullet resistant to most handgun and shotgun ammo." Matt replied.
"Do you think it’s going to get that bad here?" Karen asked.
"I don't know. Do you put your seat belt on because you expect to get into an accident?" Matt replied.
"Good point." Karen said.
Matt finished with the back shutters and took the shutters for the front windows in the house. He set each set of steel shutters next to the corresponding window. "I will put these up inside if it gets bad. It will just take a few minutes to screw them into the walls. I don't want to do anything that would mark us as having something worth taking. It’s a delicate balance between looking like a hard target and looking like you’re fortifying because you have something to protect. Besides that, the shutters will be harder to get through if they are on the inside."
Karen was concerned. “Will they leave holes in the walls?"
"There are worse places that could end up with holes than the walls." Matt replied.
"You mean us." Karen knew what he meant.
After he was finished with the shutters, Matt and Karen started to move all of the extra food they had purchased earlier that day into the office. They did not have a huge house and all of their storage areas were full. They stacked the bags of rice on top of each other and then stacked the beans on top of the rice. The canned goods were stacked along another empty space on the wall.
They completed that task and started dinner. They had a great meal of steak quesadillas and fresh greens from the garden that evening. Police sirens were a common sound around their home these days, but this evening they were more prevalent than ever.
Karen cleaned up the table and dishes and Matt went to the safe. He loaded an extra magazine for his .45 caliber Glock 21 and one for Karen's 9mm Glock 19. He put fresh batteries in both of their tactical lights. These had been their nightstand guns.
Jack wanted to seem like he knew what was going on and gave Blaine the abbreviated version of Matt's Publix story.
"No kidding!" Blaine responded. The conversation turned to provisions and Blaine explained he had a couple of weeks’ worth of dry goods he had bought for hurricane season. He also mentioned that he had a revolver and a shotgun if things got nasty. Matt smiled and gave a nod but didn't tip his hand. Part of the prepper code was to maintain operational security or OPSEC which entails keeping your mouth shut about what you have and how much of it.
"Are you guys all set?" Blaine asked.
"We can get by for a while." Matt said.
"Can you take care of yourself if things get bad?" Blaine inquired of Matt.
"We have a pistol." Matt said. "And then some." he thought to himself.
Jack thought about it, then said. "Things are getting kinda rough around here anyway. Maybe I should get something. What do you guys recommend?"
Blaine started ".357"
".357 is a nice gun" Matt commented, "but it only has six rounds. And it takes a while to reload. Glock makes a .45 that takes a 13 round magazine plus one in the pipe. Once those are out, it’s a matter of seconds, not minutes to change the magazine. It’s a popular gun which makes it easy to get extra magazines and parts for it. They are also the gun of choice for many law enforcement agencies and militaries around the world because of their dependability."
"Wow" Blaine added, "I hope I never need 14 rounds."
"I hope I never need one round." Matt chuckled.
CHAPTER 10
"The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty."
Proverbs 22:3
Matt went to the shed and got the hurricane shutters out. He started to place them on all of the windows that were inside of the back fence.
Karen came out and asked "What are you doing?"
"Just putting up the hurricane shutters to harden our house. It will make it harder to get into and also bullet resistant to most handgun and shotgun ammo." Matt replied.
"Do you think it’s going to get that bad here?" Karen asked.
"I don't know. Do you put your seat belt on because you expect to get into an accident?" Matt replied.
"Good point." Karen said.
Matt finished with the back shutters and took the shutters for the front windows in the house. He set each set of steel shutters next to the corresponding window. "I will put these up inside if it gets bad. It will just take a few minutes to screw them into the walls. I don't want to do anything that would mark us as having something worth taking. It’s a delicate balance between looking like a hard target and looking like you’re fortifying because you have something to protect. Besides that, the shutters will be harder to get through if they are on the inside."
Karen was concerned. “Will they leave holes in the walls?"
"There are worse places that could end up with holes than the walls." Matt replied.
"You mean us." Karen knew what he meant.
After he was finished with the shutters, Matt and Karen started to move all of the extra food they had purchased earlier that day into the office. They did not have a huge house and all of their storage areas were full. They stacked the bags of rice on top of each other and then stacked the beans on top of the rice. The canned goods were stacked along another empty space on the wall.
They completed that task and started dinner. They had a great meal of steak quesadillas and fresh greens from the garden that evening. Police sirens were a common sound around their home these days, but this evening they were more prevalent than ever.
Karen cleaned up the table and dishes and Matt went to the safe. He loaded an extra magazine for his .45 caliber Glock 21 and one for Karen's 9mm Glock 19. He put fresh batteries in both of their tactical lights. These had been their nightstand guns.
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