If you look on our map, there are several entrances in the rear of the store. On the far west end of the building, there is the main dock where semi trucks back up and unload their pallets of merchandise. Near this dock, there is an emergency fire exit. There is no handle on the outside of the door and this thing is made of pretty solid steel. At the time of Zero Hour, a semi truck was backed into the dock, plus is stands a good five feet off the ground so that area is not really breach potential. There is the produce dock with a scissor lift ramp for our produce trucks to unload but I explained on my last entry how that area was secured. But not all vendors make deliveries in semis. Frito Lay, Coke, Little Debbie, Budweiser, all these companies bring their stuff in on pallets or on hand carts and they wheel them up a ramp entrance into the main section of the backroom. That ramp makes it easy for vendors to wheel in their product. It is also a straight shot for two zombies that made it into the store just before Kasondra called out for the lockdown.
And it was these zombies that incapacitated the two girls, Toni Peters and Lisa Paulson, who were working in the receiving office. So imagine Charles’ surprise when he comes walking from one of the freezers, carrying a box of product, as he heads back to the meat department.
As Charles tells the story, he was walking back to the department, when the call went out. It was at that time when Toni and Lisa were attacked. They managed to barricade themselves within the Receiving Office but the office has two thin-paned windows that the zombies smashed through quite easily
To be honest, I don’t know what lucky star Luke was born under but he managed to incapacitate the two zombies that were punching their way through the window. He rescued both the ladies, speared one through the bottom of the jaw with a piece of the shattered glass (thus brain injury, thus death) and then shoved the other zombies outside before shutting the door without managing to get bit.
Now, if you have not recognized the names of Toni Peters or Lisa Paulson, it is because they were not counted amongst the survivors. With their cars parked out back, both Toni and Lisa decided to make a run for it after assessing the situation. These are both family women with children and grandchildren and the last place they wanted to be was away from their families. Before escaping out of one of the security fire doors, the last we saw, they made it to their cars and drove away. What has ever become of them, I have no idea. Maybe they made it to their families and maybe they made it to a safe zone… but we don’t even know where a nearby safe zone is…
Still Luke locked down that rear entrance and probably saved us from letting an endless mob of those zoms from getting in here. But this is when we came to the hard part. I was not just concerned about getting all of the zombies out of our store. I was concerned with getting one person in…
