When the Power Is Gone: A Powerless World - Book 1 by P. A. Glaspy Page A
Authors: P. A. Glaspy
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shallow, self-serving rich boy, who would be one of the first to go down in a situation like what we were currently facing. Russ went on to fill us in on his idea.
“As things degrade, there will be more and more troubles headed our way. You can never have too many people when it comes to security. I think we should offer to bring him in here, and when we head to the farm, see if he wants to come along. He is smart and savvy when it comes to surviving. I don’t know what in his past made him this way, but he could definitely be an asset, now and in the future. When we get to the farm, there will be a lot more to secure, and we will need more bodies. I think we should feel him out, and if he doesn’t have any family or a fall back location, we can offer him a place with us. I’m ready to debate this if we need to.” Russ looked around the table at each of us.
As his wife, and after what he went through to open my eyes to prepping, I didn’t doubt Russ anymore. If he said Brian was a good guy and would be an asset, I was in. Bob and Janet would be the voters. Janet would go along with Bob, or me, for that matter, so it really came down to Bob.
He looked at Russ with a surprised look. “Brother, if you think we need him, we need him. I wouldn’t have believed it if came from anyone other than you. That just leaves one question: is he bunking in with you and Anne, or me and Janet? We could make him a pallet on the floor with the boys.”
He grinned at Russ, and we all laughed. “No, I think we can set him up in the den, at least until things start to get really ugly. I think we should invite him to dinner this evening. Can we cook a dinner that’s guest worthy tonight?”
Janet and I both smiled and nodded. “I’m sure we can come up with something enticing. Lord knows, we still have freezer food thawing as we speak. Leave that to us.” I held up my hand for the high five that Janet returned while the guys laughed again.
“Good deal. Bob and I will go over this afternoon and invite him for dinner. I think you will all be pleasantly surprised at who he really is. Until then, we have some stuff to work on. Boys, eat up. We have work to do.” The boys shoved the last bites of eggs and biscuits in their mouths, downed their orange juice (more frozen stuff thawing), and put their shoes on. As they were all headed out the door, I held up my hand in that traffic cop stance again. Maybe I had missed my calling.
“Attention! Dental hygiene alert! In case you hadn’t considered it, there won’t be a lot of dentists in business for a while. Until further notice, everyone will brush and floss after every meal. We can’t afford to get cavities, and there won’t be any root canals being done. Go brush and floss, everybody.” It’s the little things that can cause the biggest problems.
They all headed to the bathrooms to do as they were bid. As I was contemplating the lack of doctors and dentists, it dawned on me that I hadn’t even thought about my job, or my boss. I worked as a bookkeeper for a restaurant equipment company. My boss was an alright guy, but he gave me a rash of shit for being a prepper. Not that I let him know how in depth our prepping actually went, but he had seen my GHB in my SUV and asked what it was. When I told him, he laughed for five minutes.
“Anne, are you kidding me? A woman as smart as you worrying about something as unlikely as that??” I wondered how he felt about all that now. I said a quick prayer for him and his family and then moved on. When the SHTF, my family came first. As the guys came back down the hall, I headed back to obey my own dental hygiene edict. I had a feeling it was going to be a busy day.
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Russ took Bob and the boys out to the back yard. It was early spring in Tennessee, so the temps were mild, thankfully. Come the summer, if the power was still out, we were going to find out firsthand what our grandparent’s lives had been like before
“As things degrade, there will be more and more troubles headed our way. You can never have too many people when it comes to security. I think we should offer to bring him in here, and when we head to the farm, see if he wants to come along. He is smart and savvy when it comes to surviving. I don’t know what in his past made him this way, but he could definitely be an asset, now and in the future. When we get to the farm, there will be a lot more to secure, and we will need more bodies. I think we should feel him out, and if he doesn’t have any family or a fall back location, we can offer him a place with us. I’m ready to debate this if we need to.” Russ looked around the table at each of us.
As his wife, and after what he went through to open my eyes to prepping, I didn’t doubt Russ anymore. If he said Brian was a good guy and would be an asset, I was in. Bob and Janet would be the voters. Janet would go along with Bob, or me, for that matter, so it really came down to Bob.
He looked at Russ with a surprised look. “Brother, if you think we need him, we need him. I wouldn’t have believed it if came from anyone other than you. That just leaves one question: is he bunking in with you and Anne, or me and Janet? We could make him a pallet on the floor with the boys.”
He grinned at Russ, and we all laughed. “No, I think we can set him up in the den, at least until things start to get really ugly. I think we should invite him to dinner this evening. Can we cook a dinner that’s guest worthy tonight?”
Janet and I both smiled and nodded. “I’m sure we can come up with something enticing. Lord knows, we still have freezer food thawing as we speak. Leave that to us.” I held up my hand for the high five that Janet returned while the guys laughed again.
“Good deal. Bob and I will go over this afternoon and invite him for dinner. I think you will all be pleasantly surprised at who he really is. Until then, we have some stuff to work on. Boys, eat up. We have work to do.” The boys shoved the last bites of eggs and biscuits in their mouths, downed their orange juice (more frozen stuff thawing), and put their shoes on. As they were all headed out the door, I held up my hand in that traffic cop stance again. Maybe I had missed my calling.
“Attention! Dental hygiene alert! In case you hadn’t considered it, there won’t be a lot of dentists in business for a while. Until further notice, everyone will brush and floss after every meal. We can’t afford to get cavities, and there won’t be any root canals being done. Go brush and floss, everybody.” It’s the little things that can cause the biggest problems.
They all headed to the bathrooms to do as they were bid. As I was contemplating the lack of doctors and dentists, it dawned on me that I hadn’t even thought about my job, or my boss. I worked as a bookkeeper for a restaurant equipment company. My boss was an alright guy, but he gave me a rash of shit for being a prepper. Not that I let him know how in depth our prepping actually went, but he had seen my GHB in my SUV and asked what it was. When I told him, he laughed for five minutes.
“Anne, are you kidding me? A woman as smart as you worrying about something as unlikely as that??” I wondered how he felt about all that now. I said a quick prayer for him and his family and then moved on. When the SHTF, my family came first. As the guys came back down the hall, I headed back to obey my own dental hygiene edict. I had a feeling it was going to be a busy day.
****
Russ took Bob and the boys out to the back yard. It was early spring in Tennessee, so the temps were mild, thankfully. Come the summer, if the power was still out, we were going to find out firsthand what our grandparent’s lives had been like before
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