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Permalink Reply by Ken Oath on August 10, 2017 at 2:07pm

Hi Dude :) 

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Permalink Reply by Boris on August 10, 2017 at 4:33pm

 

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Permalink Reply by Less Prone on August 10, 2017 at 7:00pm

Welcome aboard.

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Permalink Reply by Elyag Reed...We are Legion on August 11, 2017 at 2:40pm

WELCOME TO THIS NEW WORLD...

Brad and Jill are/were your typical upper middle-class American family, except that was under the old classification which they differ from, unlike most of their neighbors, as Brad still has his management job at the public relations firm and Jill could be working full time but chose to take on temp consulting with her degree in finance.

Becky and Brad junior, their two teenage children, were visiting the grandparents during the summer break. Becky at Jill’s parents and Brad junior at Brad’s. They had done that for the last several years on an alternating basis. It was Jill’s idea of a Balanced Upbringing. Brad usually let her suggest and plan any family issues as a woman’s rights advocate despite his dislike of her mother; always referring to him as Bradley this and Bradley that. Hell's bell's, that woman!

Many of their neighbors were not so fortunate. The house across the street still had some of the police crime scene tape on the door. Stan had lost his job and after weeks of shouting by his wife he flipped out shot her, her dog and purportedly himself. Jill knew better, she saw his body with at least seven bullet wounds when they carried him out and heard the SWAT team joking about not having to recharge the taser batteries.   

They did not vote in the last two elections despite avidly following the issues. What use when one evaluated the candidates and carefully crafted outcome.

While they pondered the American Dream, their concerns were for their family with the mounting escalation of nuclear tensions that could lead to war and even god could not fathom the potential destruction, which they referred to as WWIV. They had both agreed that Rational Minds would prevail despite some real Nutcases in charge.

As was his routine on most Saturdays, Brad planned to check a few projects at the office by mid morning and headed down to the kitchen for coffee and a light breakfast where he met Jill standing at the sink.

Brad: Morning honey, coffee?

Jill: I’m boiling water, as the coffee maker is not working.

Brad: Hugh!

Jill: Also, the fridge is off. I opened the door for milk and the light won’t come on.

Brad: Maybe the circuit breaker kicked over.

Jill: Nope, I checked it. But that’s not the worst of it. I tried to call Karen to see if I’m on call this weekend and instead of a network, there is only a buzzing sound.

Brad – Alert now: Did you check the news on TV. CNN or BBC, maybe there’s a simple explanation for all this.

Jill: There’s no reception because there’s no power. Even Facebook is Faceless on my IPod.

Brad: I’ll walk over to Ed’s and see what up.

Jill: Brad your not getting it. I just came back from checking the whole dammed neighborhood; all is down up and down the area. I had to walk, the car would not start. Ed is just sitting on his porch mumbling incoherently about the funny looking clouds.

Brad sat down at the table and stared out the window at the darkening clouds containing the remnants of the EMF detonation in the atmosphere early that morning. Of course, there had been no warning siren as the grid Fizzled and Cracked before sunup!....

 

We are Legion...

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