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If everyone had been educated about it, the same way Civil Defense had once been in the curriculum of every school back in the 1940s and 1950s, if people had known the simple things to do on Day One and Charlie had already been trained to react to an EMP, mobilize his forces, and react quickly … if they had but a few simple provisions stocked away, the same way anyone who lives in hurricane or tornado country does, would they be in this mess? The crime, the real crime, was those who truly knew the level of threat doing nothing to prepare or prevent it. Bitterly he wondered if they were
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And he could see his own avoidance of it all since that first day even as he did scramble to at least get insulin. Food, bulk food, just a fifty-pound bag of rice or flour, shoes, batteries, an additional test kit for Jennifer, damn it, even birth control for Elizabeth, dog food, a water filter so they didn’t have to boil what they now pulled out of the swamp green pool … I should have had those on hand.
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people? How is she become as a widow? She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary? BOOK OF LAMENTATIONS 1:1
John wondered what Wright was seeing. Americans? Or starved skeletal survivors, the type of survivors that America had seen all around the world for nearly seventy years, had offered generous help to, but never dreamed would finally come to their own land? “This column is heading to Asheville. I’m to take over as military governor of western North Carolina until such time as civilian authority is reestablished, but I wanted to stop here first.”
