Empty Aisles & Empty Hearts (Preppers Perspective Book 3) Read Free Page A

just going to let anybody and everybody have access to them.
     
    Dennis knew Lomax had a tractor as well as a tiller and he had eyed all the open land around Lomax`s ponds for sometime as a community survival resource. Lomax and Dennis both knew that in order to survive it takes a community and no one household on its own could survive where they were at on this road so getting Lomax to agree to Dennis’s agricultural plans shouldn’t be that big of a deal.
     
    Dennis had cans of wheat he could plant down there as a cereal crop. He had bought most of his wheat as food rations but his studies of survivalism had shown him that a community could not exist with out some type of grain crop to depend on.
     
    “ Yea we need to go and talk to him in depth, I have no idea how we are going to help him handle security on that place but we need to dream up something. He sort of got in prepper mode after I talked to him that first time and was going to fill up his pantry some, but I have no idea what he has down there food wise or even how many family members he has around at any given time. Seems like somebody is always coming or going around his house and he just set a double wide trailer down on a pad 6 months ago for his son and family to use.” Dennis said getting agitated a little bit about how little he actually did know about this neighbor.
     
    “ Well you got your raised beds and I got my garden spot for veggies but most of the other land we got is so poor you can’t raise a fuss on it. We are going to have to think on how to solve our fertilizer problem on mine because it’s not setup to be organic like your raised beds are.” Charles said as watched Dennis pour hot water from the SunRocket kettle into their mugs of instant coffee.
    You know Charles This SunRocket is a useful part of any emergency preparation kit – not only can it heat water for drinking but it can also kill water borne bacteria through heat treatment, be used to rehydrate freeze dried food and even to melt snow!” Dennis said refilling the chamber with water for the likelihood of having a second cup of coffee this morning.
     
    “ I like it because we don’t have to worry about building a fire! What is our OpSec on open fires going to be anyway Dennis? I mean everyone is cooking around here already on firewood, charcoal or propane if they got it, but pretty soon they ain`t going to have anything to cook and you know how cooking smells travel. By the way, I told Floyd we were going to eat lunch at my house and have a little talk. He said Birmingham has already started turning to pure Bedlam already.” Charles said raising one eyebrow in Dennis’s direction.
     
    “ Hell I don’t doubt that for a minute, ten to one it started in the 5 points area of town didn’t it?” Dennis said referring to a notorious crime ridden and gang infested area of the city.
     
    “ You’re probably right, but he was just talking about the city in general. He said fights broke out in the grocery stores, regular looting had already begun and it was all too common to hear lots of gunfire through out the day and night. That’s why he shagged ass down here. He said they had an IT bunker for the electronics up there, but with nothing but reserve power and no food for the workers running it that it was pointless to try to hang around or go to work.” Charles declared
     
    “ Damn idiots in IT always talk about “disaster recovery” but never think about the employees not being able to get food, fuel, water or having to bed down in the place because its too dangerous to drive to work. What was he working on anyway? Banking records? That would be a joke; you can’t even cash a check these days.” Dennis said glumly.
     
    “ I know what you mean; I am not sure what he works on. I know he has something to do with the Colleges academic records being stored and their email and such, but that is a huge server bank he works on with about a 100 other technicians. Damn