It's been a difficult and productive week

I haven't had an opportunity to get on here this week. The first few days were very hectic and I was getting a lot done. The last two days were filled constantly with moments I thought would be my last.

I'm just now getting settled down. I slept a few hours but my nerves are still absolutely on edge. I'll try to keep this chronological. Forgive any ramblings please.

Some time last week, I don't know maybe 5 or 6 days ago, I saw another huge explosion at the south end of the bay. That's about 35 miles as the crow flies which is well over the horizon, so it was a big blast. Thinking about it now though, maybe it was on the water not over land. That might change things. There are fuel barges and bulk transport ships that used to use this bay, maybe one of those blew or something. Regardless, it was huge. It woke me up in the middle of the night. I was racked out in the back seat of the truck. I sat up pretty quick and hit my head on the window. My luck.... because there was one of them outside. One of the not-so-dead dead guys. He heard or saw me, and started banging on the door trying to get to me. I had backed the truck into a very narrow alley. It was barely wider than the truck. This asshole managed to squeeze between the truck and the wall somehow. Stupid luck. So, I scrambled up front to get the hell out of dodge because he was making a LOT of noise. I got my foot caught between the front seats, and fell. I landed on the horn. The horn still works, did I mention that? The asshole that tricked out my nice big house sized truck also replaced the horn with one of those train horn type horns. I drew in every dead son of a bitch from about a mile in every direction. I got the truck started and barely got out of dodge in time. I drew in what might be the biggest crowd of the things I'd seen to that point. I did the slow roll trick and got out without any damage. Not sure the head count, I was kinda panicky. I got up onto the elevated portion of the interstate which is pretty well intact. There were some vehicles blocking the lanes but not many on the extremely narrow shoulder. I carefully pushed those out of the way and then backed into them to push them back. This pretty effectively closed the door behind me.

This leads me to what might be the best stroke of luck yet. The particular elevated section of interstate is over a mile long and three lanes wide for its majority. There were a lot of vehicles stuck up there and more than a few dead shambling about. After I drove the length of the overpass I found a hefty blockage at the other end. There were two buses locked together after some sort of crash. They made a nice V-shape that blocked all three lanes and both shoulders completely. It hit me at that point that I had a nice piece of real estate all to myself if I could clear and secure it. As I'd driven from one end to the other, most of the mobile dead had followed me. I was just a bit ahead of the first of them so I backed up and crushed the ones in the open. I then parked the truck right up against the concrete side rail at an angle with them at the wide end and me at the narrow end. I wanted to funnel them to me so they couldn't come from more than one direction. The gap was so narrow they had to squeeze through to get to where I was standing, with my back almost to the buses. As they squirmed through, slightly off balance, I just gave them each a little shove with a shovel I found and they fell right off the overpass. The 30 or 40 foot fall to the highway below was enough to kill or incapacitate them all the the point I wasn't worried. Thoroughly pleased with myself, I began scavenging through the abandoned vehicles. There I found a few of the dead, still buckled into their seat belts or otherwise trapped inside. They can't open doors. I don't know how much of what I put on here is obvious or old knowledge to everyone else, but until someone suggests otherwise, I'm going to keep sharing most of what I learn and what keeps me alive. I'm still not going to give exact details of my location yet. At least not where I currently am.

I added a few dozen gallons to my water supply. I found a car with 3 cases of military MRE meals in the trunk. I found some assorted ammo, a few firearms, and some other food. I then used the truck to push the vehicles out of the central span of the overpass. I spent the whole next full day doing this and searching through the vehicles more. I used to play a lot of video games and I was always that guy that solves all the puzzles and searches all the rooms to get all the loot. I collect all the coins or rings or lego pieces because it bugs me not to have everything. I was destined to be a hoarder maybe. So, in the bed of one of the other trucks I gathered all the water bottles. In another I put fuel containers. I'm mostly keeping diesel because that's what my found truck uses but I'm saving gas as well just in case. In one of the cars, I filled the back seat with food and covered it with clothes and shoes that were scattered around.