Javier is an interesting guy. He has turned out to be a great addition to our group. An electrician by training, he's been working general maintenance here at Boyne Mountain for about 10 years.
Here in Northern Michigan people didn't panic, but they listened to the instructions they were given by the so-called authorities. I'm a little surprised to hear that as I figured this area was full of survivalists. Of course a few of us (including Javier) figured out pretty quickly that survival mode was the correct course of action, so we ignored the authorities.
Javier said that people left this area as they were told that moving to a more urban area was the smart thing to do. They headed South to Saginaw, Flint and even Detroit. Javier let his instincts drive his behavior, and volunteered to watch the Boyne grounds even as it's operators decided to shut it down and headed South.
That was 8 weeks ago.
He chose the Pizza Pub to live in. He had plenty of food, but lost electricity 6 weeks ago. The fireplace provided him heat. He didn't realize anyone else was in the Clocktower lodge until he saw a walker wandering around in the lobby. He didn't have any idea that it was essentially dead until we told him about our experiences. He also read Jerry's copy of The Zombie Survival Guide which more than convinced him that what we had told him was true.
The one thing he did realize when he first saw the walker was that they were delirious and dangerous. Luckily the first one he saw was alone. He tried to communicate with it, but to no avail. Once again, his instincts took over and dodged the thing when it lunged at him. He then ran to the Pizza Pub, barricaded the door and hadn't come out since for fear of running into more of them.
As I mentioned earlier, Javier has been of great value. He took us to the maintenance garage and we got two gas-powered generators. There is plenty of gas in huge tanks along the ski slopes that are used to fuel the pumps for snow making. So as of now we are living a pretty good life.
But it's now February 27th. And the inevitable thaw is coming. We have been brainstorming plans on how we are going to deal with the thawed zombies and the possibility of unfriendly gangs showing up. Kind of feels like we are going to have to prepare like the Swiss Family Robinson did when they knew a pirate attack was inevitable.
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