Day 12 - Miracle Across Highway 82

It took a pickup truck and a collection of firearms not seen outside of a military convoy but Brad and his crew have arrived and made it to the store. I wish I could say that it is all good news but one of their members was bitten in the exodus from Ace to Reason’s. We are all struggling on how to deal with this.

So first, the good news. Brad and his crew made the jump early in the morning after the zombies had kind of settled down after wandering about at night. We had the early morning light on our side. As per Brad’s request, we had shooters on our roof looking to cover their escape and clear a path. As it turns out, Brad and the group left a pair of chainsaws revved and locked on at full throttle. They then took the chainsaws and dropped them inside metal trashcans and wheeled them out in wheelbarrows outside the front of the hardware store. That awful noise brought the zombies running. Then, they took their pickup in the opposite direction. As the chainsaws drew the attention of the zombies in the area, they made the mad dash to the back of the store. But I understand their confidence in their plan… Her name is Shannon Fox.

Shannon works as a police dispatcher at the sheriff’s office. This means she operates the radio and tells officers where to go. This means she was working at the ground floor level when all this broke out. I full intend to go through a “debriefing” with her to figure out what happened in Langley on May 1st. But more over, shortly before her office was overrun, her and a fellow deputy were loading up all sorts of ammunition and weapons into a pick up. Her deputy did not make it out of the station but Shannon did. And she saw signs of hope at Ace Hardware in Brad and Keith so that is where she stopped. Now, thanks to her, we have a plethora of weapons from which to defend ourselves. I am not savvy enough to tell you exactly what all the weapons are but they are like something you see in a Schwarzenegger movie.

So Brad brought with him Kelsey Cameron. Kelsey worked the register at Ace Hardware. He also brought with him Shannon Fox (as mentioned above), two customers shopping at the time of the attacks – Ashlynn Clary and Dawn Smith – both locals, and fellow floor employee Keith Morris. Unfortunately, between exiting the pickup and getting inside, Keith received a bite on his leg from a zombie that was under our scissor lift ramp that we use at the Produce dock to unload semi-trailers.

We kept the Produce roll up door closed until the very last second and given the vantage point of our “snipers” on the roof, no one could have spotted the thing. But now we have a serious situation on our hands. I cannot believe that I am typing this out. We are going to have to kill Keith…


UPDATED SURVIVOR LIST
Audrey Blair – 22, Female, Langley, OK
Jennifer Brown – 25, Female, Langley, OK
Kim Chambers – 25, Female, Adair, OK
Janet Chambers – 50, Female, Langley
Dillon Hernden – 18, Male, Ketchum, OK
Kanen Kraig – 19, Male, Jay, OK
Nolan Lang – 20, Male, Vinita, OK
Charles Lucas – 27, Male, Jay, OK
Sharon Massey – 59, Female, Locust Grove, OK
Alex Mathews – 14, Male, Adair, OK
Ryan Mathews – 36, Male, Adair, OK
Judy Myers – 37, Female, Langley, OK
Jean Nibert – 49, Female, Langley, OK
Judy Savage – 55, Female, Strang, OK
Kasondra Taylor – 22, Female, Langley, OK
Lance Wiggins – 18, Male, Spavinaw, OK
Hunter Woolsman – 17, Male, Vinita, OK
Newest Editions
Kelsey Cameron – 23, Female, Spavinaw, OK
Brad Chambers – 21, Male, Langley, OK
Ashlynn Clary – 33, Female, Disney Island, OK
Shannon Fox – 33, Female, Afton, OK
Keith Morris* – 20, Disney, OK
Dawn Smith – 24, Female, Langley, OK