"Ellen Gilchrist - Black Winter" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gilchrist Ellen)

тАЬThe turnpike only goes one way.тАЭ
тАЬWe should find shelter, Rhoda. We shouldn't be in a convertible.тАЭ
тАЬI want to find a side road and head for the woods. There will be rioting.
I don't want to be where people are.тАЭ
тАЬWe'll be in Siloam Springs pretty soon. We could go to that park by
Lake Wedington.тАЭ
тАЬWe need to find a building.тАЭ
тАЬIt might be too late for that.тАЭ
тАЬWe didn't see a burst of light.тАЭ
тАЬIs this happening?тАЭ
 тАЬJust drive the car. Find us a place to hide.тАЭ
Forty minutes later we were on a back road leading to Lincoln,
Arkansas. It was a road I knew from when I had a hippie boyfriend. He
had had friends who built themselves a sod house on this road.
The skies were clouding up. Nuclear fallout? We didn't know.
Everything was ominous now. There were no cars anywhere. Where had all
the people gone? Why were no cars on the roads? What had they seen on
television that had made the houses and the roads so still?
Seven miles down county road 385 we found a stone church and
decided to take shelter there. We pulled up to the door and unloaded part
of our supplies and went inside and lay down on the floor.
тАЬIs this happening?тАЭ
тАЬYes.тАЭ
тАЬWill we die? Are we going to die?тАЭ
тАЬMaybe not.тАЭ
тАЬIf we're radiated our skin will fall off. There will be holes in our skin.тАЭ
тАЬWe didn't see anything. We didn't see the flash. Maybe it's just the east
coast. It will take a while for the radiation to get here,тАЭ
тАЬIt will blow here. It will blow everywhere. Where are all the people,
Tannin? Why weren't there any cars on the roads?тАЭ
тАЬThey had television. They knew what to do.тАЭ
тАЬOur radio went out. Why would television stations be operating?тАЭ
тАЬI don't know. I'm just guessing. We were right to leave the towns.
There will be rioting. We have food and they will want it.тАЭ I moved closer
to him. He put his arms around me and we lay like that and talked and
slept.
Here is what we had with us at that point. The car, with a tool kit and a
small first aid kit. A waterproof car cover. A spare tire. Maps. Two sacks
full of crackers and candy bars and beef jerky. Three quarters of a tank of
89 octane gasoline. A bottle of Evian. Ten Cokes. My new fur coat. The
clothes we were wearing. Tannin's new sweater and jeans. A pair of
running shoes and a pair of socks I had in the trunk of the car.
тАЬWe were right to leave Tulsa,тАЭ we both kept saying. We knew it was
true. There had been riots in cities all year. Ever since President Clinton
was killed the dispossessed had rioted everywhere. I counted the trouble
from the day the doctor killed forty people in the mosque on the West
Bank, in the occupied territories, in Israel, at dawn. It had spread all over
the world, in the near east, in South America, in Africa, in the United
States. But why am I telling you this. If Germany survived you know all
this. If this gets to you. If we ever get out of here. If you are there.