3/10/2023 0 Comments Vise x mac![]() ![]() Today, listen to the story of Krick and his descendants, a crew of profit prophets who have found fame and fortune staring at the sky and seeing the future. He was a salesman who turned the weather into a product. He was suave and dapper, with the charm of a sunbeam and the boldness of a thunderclap. But in the 1940s, there was really only one of them: Irving P. They’re local celebrities with an outsized influence. Rolling onto the airwaves at morning, noon and night they tell us what to wear and where to plan our picnics. And there are some notes describing the places they stopped.Meteorologists are as common as the clouds these days. "Run Dutil took bearings and direction readings with a sextant. "Direction readings," Rock yelled exhultantly. McCaughlin shouted, "Watch out -" and drew his shotpistol, before he realized the face was familiar.Įagerly he played the light across its contents. Rockson gasped as his beam hit a human face. It was dark inside, they lit a flashlight. Rockson and his Freefighters pulled up their sleds in front of the blackened crumbling structure and gingerly stepped into the ruin. There is still some heat from radioactive elements in that surface - hence the clicking you hear on the Geiger attached to the front of my sled. You notice that there is no snow on that mile-wide plain either. "The heat of the air-detonated blast melted the sand into that shiny surface. ![]() "That's the area that took a nuke bomb hit back in the twentieth century," said Rockson grimly. They came over the ridge and looked down on a glassy-surfaced blackened plain. Hopefully, they would find the next landmark on the route to Eden, the giant teepee that Danik bad described. They headed southward, guided by Run Dutil's notes in the little pad. A tattered and mouse-eaten American flag hung disintegrating on a pole nearby. He was staring forever at the three astronauts in spacesuits that had returned from the moon and were coming in to receive his accolades. The snow flurries drifted in on the figure of John F. Light spilled in from above through a hole in the ceiling. ![]() The bearing was vague, as Dutil had measured direction with a sextant that was little more than a toy.ĭanik took the lead, and they passed a lifelike statue of Teddy Roosevelt riding a horse in the Battle of Bull Run, and then a replica of President Bush signing the Martial Law decree in the Oval Office. Rockson needed every bit of his famed "mutant's luck" if they were to reach the obscure site. "We can roll some boulders over him - better that way - the animals can't get at him." Rockson wondered how they would spade the ground outside, seeing that it was frozen solid. The rubles bought the trapper families some precious supplies like salt in the small free markets in the shadows of the great Soviet forts further east. Hides and furs were exchanged for rubles. The Soviets usually ignored these primitive American communities, which served their purposes because their commanding officers did a brisk trade with the mountainmen who did fur trapping. Moosehead Township was a set of ten or twelve wooden shacks and a tanning shed for hides. It was the area around a small hunter-trapper community called Moosehead. They came upon an area 235 miles south of Colorado Springs Plain that Rockson himself had crossed years earlier. Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln - a plastic figure." It would be useful, for if the navigation device had some error in it, they could take that into account in plotting their trek south. There was a pack rat sticking its nose out of the decayed fabric.ĭetroit rummaged around and found the toy sextant Run Dutil had used for compiling his meager notes in JFK's plastic hands. "His top hat don't look too good." Rona said. They didn't like the President's museum much, it seemed. The dogs were howling and yapping, apparently happy to be on the trail again. "It wasn't like that when I was here two weeks ago," Danik gasped. ![]()
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