I got interrupted, Sorry

I was trying to detail how eventful my week had been when it became eventful yet again.

First: I'm no longer alone. I haven't told her about this yet because the trust thing isn't there yet. She's asleep so I snuck on here. We're holed up on my elevated overpass oasis. She is in one of the buses at the end of our redoubt. She says it's so she can get away if it hits the fan. Oh yeah, her name is Emily. Emily says she's from Tampa originally. She's 28. Was a grad student. She's for shit with a gun and panics pretty bad when things go sideways. I don't know how she survived this long but if we stick together I'm certain I'll be pulling her weight and my own. Unsure as yet how I feel about this.

So, to continue from last time: I never figured out what that second explosion was caused by. I am still venturing out and creating caches throughout the outlying areas of Tampa. I'm not going down town unless I absolutely have to. I found a second vehicle and I've stashed it near my overpass and it's full of goodies in case I have to make a quick escape. Included in my cache building, I've decided to start planting some seeds on top of some flat roofed buildings around here. I will need a bigger food supply eventually and I have no doubt I'll run out of the pre-dead supplies at some point. Plan ahead, etc. I have to find some seeds first, and some suitable locations. This is more of an idea at this point than an actual, in-operation plan.

Before my last post, part of what kept me so busy, was scouting. I'm still doing lots of scouting. I'll tell you one thing: the refugee areas of Tampa are an absolute wasteland. It looks like they got overrun while still in the setting up process and somebody cleaned house. I heard there was a big shelter being established at the football stadium so I decided to check it out last week when I was in that area. The Air Force or Navy dropped some serious ordnance on that place. The levels of damage done, the craters, the missing sections of the stadium, that's all way beyond what small arms or light vehicles can do. I saw two tanks, both burnt up pretty badly, but they were facing away from the stadium so I don't think they did the damage. From what I've seen in the past, on the news and whatnot, this looked like air dropped bombs. Napalm too. Napalm makes sense if you're trying to wipe out a crowd. It was a fucking nightmare in there. I won't go into too much detail. I'll simple leave it at, there is no one and nothing left there worth me going near it again.

I found Emily hiding on the 2nd floor of a shopping mall near the stadium. I haven't seen much sign of looting around here. I think the area fell too hard and too fast for all that. The mall was barely touched. I got some stuff there to add to my stash but there's plenty left.

Emily says she hid with her family on a boat near channel side right in the beginning. That's about all I can get out of her though. She somehow made it through down town to that mall though. I want to know how. I'll keep at it until I find out.

The further into the summer we get, the more anxious I get. The rains are coming. This part of Florida really does have something of a monsoon season and it's going to make life out here that much more miserable.

The humidity might be affecting the dead somehow. The ones that aren't really dead yet, the faster ones, they don't seem to be slowing down at all. In the very beginning, when the humidity was lower, I heard people in my refugee center in St. Pete talking about the "live" ones start falling apart after a few weeks. The humidity might be keeping them more lithe now. I don't know. I'll keep an eye on it and fill everyone in when I know more. The really dead ones don't seem to be affected by much. I've noticed they are a little more likely to congregate in shady areas as opposed to milling around in direct sunlight. I'm no researcher so I can't say for sure. Maybe it's not a pattern, who knows.

For now, I'm reasonably safe, well fed, and no longer alone. Until next time boys and girls.... Bye

(EDIT: I should read what everyone else posted since my last post, before I make a new post)