WOW, just Wow. I'm sure any number of expletives could come to mind, but it's wow. I find myself driving, in the diesel I call Big Red. Trailer full of survival gear, headed south. Southwest, but who knows where? I'm just glad these cell towers still work, for now. Hoping to hell that my contact has the intel I need, not sure I can trust this scanner I foraged out of that dead pawn shop. Funny, I always thought in this post-disaster scenario I'd be rummaging for guns and ammo, but I have more than any 10 pawn shops would have anyway, and more than most of the gun stores have this time of year. Left half for the parental units, and my 'big brother'. Hope he remembers his basic and M16 training. They wanted to stay, but I know better. No time to argue. Gotta Jet.

It's a 10 or 11 hour drive, and I'm hoping against hope that I can make it before a perimeter is set up around the area. Also pretty damn sure that this was a strike by the Deep State, my contact has basically told me it's a huge oval from Eastern Colorado to 'almost' DC, but south of Chicago and east of Denver. Contact says it's clearly a political thing, except for the state of Illinois. Contact is puzzled by this, I say that's a No Brainer. Illinois would be Blood Red if you took out Chicago. Ahhh.... the lightbulb went on!

I keep saying "contact" because all of these are text messages, from a number I did not have. At least it shows area code 469, Dallas and Northern Texas. At least this jives with the preliminary dust-off point, Texarkana... Contact will not reveal any more info, except that we are acquaintances online. Literally dozens have my digits, mostly gun forum folks, so it's a measured gamble. One I must take. Contact won't even reveal if it is the gun board, nothing. Strange.

It's a good thing I had the trailer set up for showing my generator. The STG is up and running, I can charge the battery bank, or run the frequency drives and produce pure sine-wave power, 3 phase. All I had to do was throw in the survival gear, most was in totes and ready to go. Plus I grabbed the Silver. Complete bug-out, and all these years I had been planning to stay put when this came down. Well, I think pretty soon the guys in NBC suits will be showing up, of course that's all for show, but they won't know it. Probably tell them it was a fast-acting virus, but nothing is that fast. I barely made it home from the bank when 'IT' happened. Still not quite sure what It was, but if I had a better exposure to it, I would likely be a goner.

I was working on the STG when there was like a partial eclipse or something, but the sun just dimmed. No clouds, just less light. I had the trailer up close to the garage, where Dad has the hookups for his gas generator. Everyone was in the house, Mum was making dinner, lunch, dunch, whatever she calls it. These people eat at weird times. But then again I do too, but the point is it was early afternoon. After this "eclipse", or wtf/e "IT" was, I noticed the Chevy Avalanche that runs up and down the concrete drive next door was doing. Like running right into the storage shed! What the!!!
I ran over to see if the driver was OK, and through the windows, which were down, I pulled up short... He was so red and pustules breaking out all over, I turned an ran the other way. I went to the next door neighbor, Carl and Pam. They were both coming out to see, I yelled "Don't get too close!" They stopped within 15 feet or so, looking sickly, Pam actually threw up.

I went inside to use the landline, my parents insisted on keeping theirs. Called 911, all it did was ring about 8 times and a recording said "no one is available, please try again later" and I thought that was strange. Called the Sheriff, no answer. Starting to worry, I went out front and tried my cell. Same 911 message, called City Police, just to check. NO ANSWER, WTH? Then I got the text message. It said THIS IS THE BIG DIE-OFF GTFO DODGE! About that time I noticed the place across the street, where they sell pot, they are all lying around their hot-tub... red, blistered, like they just died instantly. Fell over in place. OMG it's REAL!

Any title suggestions, I will take them! Probably make a hashtag so this is searchable too.

Prologue and Ch. 1 posted