Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Day 23 – Status Update

Just a quick update. We are able to communicate via our Intranet with the Reason’s store in Claremore. Still no contact with the Tulsa locations. Claremore has been completely overrun and I can only imagine what Tulsa would be like. I can only hope that my wife did not drive smack dab into the center of an outbreak hot zone. We are trying to decide how to get the Claremore crew rescued.

Things are still too infested outside to bury Keith so we have placed his body in the ice cream freezer.

Brad’s arrival from ACE has caused us to rethink our situation. With the right teams, training, and gear, I think we could actually begin to venture outside. I am still not 100% sold on this plan. After all, do you know the best way to avoid getting bit by a shark? … Don’t go in the water. 0% of shark attacks happen up on the beach. So if you never go in the water, you are not getting bit. Still, there is a motel and a small private resort not too incredibly far away from us. Real linens and mattresses would be streets ahead over the inflatable pool mattresses we have been using. And, the underwear situation is kind of starting to become a real issue. There is a Dollar General right next door to ACE Hardware which would have clothes and other sundries that we do not have being a grocery store.
Also, we share a parking lot with a convenience store and a liquor store. While I can claim that it is for medicinal purposes (sterilization and such), I think people could use a little more liquor in their lives. We have our beer but Oklahoma liquor laws prohibit the sale of liquor in grocery stores and while people have been doing “beer rationing,” there is enough liquor in that one store to keep us all tanked until rapture…

So we need to start training sweeper teams…