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the situation.
    Bobbie had also briefly gotten onto the internet.  Naturally, she had gone directly to YouTube, which was full of videos of zombie attacks and videos made by survivors.  One video made in Manhattan showed thousands of zombies in Times Square.   They were killing everyone in sight.  I saw a family of tourists torn apart in about five seconds.  According to the narration, Manhattan was pretty much wiped out.  The woman who made the video was locked in her safe room and was monitoring zombies ransacking her apartment.  She ended her video with her address and said that she had supplies for three days.  She was screwed and she knew it.
    Bobbie had also checked her email account on Google.  She had gotten emails from my brother, who said he was okay, and a few other relatives and friends.  Her connection cut out before she could read all the emails.

Chapter Six:  The Snows
    It was about noon, so Bill and I decided to check out the Snow household.  Since they were gone, we decided it was okay, under the circumstances, to “borrow” whatever we found.   We compensated for the theft, in our minds, by agreeing to return everything to them when they got back.
    We emptied the Prius into the garage and went back out.  Before we left, I told Mike to grab Dad’s 9 millimeter, holster, and magazines.   He was psyched.
    I grabbed the Mini 14 and some magazines and Bill took the .38 and a pocket full of refills; he still had the 12 gauge.
    We immediately ran into trouble at the Snow house, which was closest to the main road, across from the Dillons.  As we approached, we saw a pack of about twenty zombies on the Dillon’s lawn and more were in the house.  Our options were to run or continue with our mission.  The zombies looked slow and stupid so we decided to continue.
    Sean had set us up with radios and had agreed to monitor them from home. We called him on the radio and he was right there.  I was going to ask to speak to Kate but decided that Sean could handle it. We told him to tell everyone that they were about to hear shooting and that it would be us.  I told him to tell Mike, Sean, Cody, and Tyler to get up in the upstairs windows and get ready for some incoming zombies.
    Bill was driving. We agreed that he’d drive along as slowly as he could, while I stood on the passenger side door frame, with the Mini 14 on the roof, and picked the zombies off.  He was to stay behind the wheel unless a zombie came within ten yards, then he’d unload with the 12 gauge.  Handguns were to be a last resort.  I knew that they’d come running when they heard shots so I asked Bill to back up to where we were  about 75 yards away and move as slowly as we could along the street.  If they got within 40 yards, Bill would reverse back towards my house.
    The plan worked perfectly.  Dad had sighted the Mini in for 100 yards.  I began shooting slowly, about one shot every other second, aiming for noses and temples.  My first five shots were perfect, with five clean kills.  The zombies began to move towards us and I emptied my twenty round magazine, taking another ten down.  It was starting to seem pretty easy, although zombies continued to pour out of the Dillon house.
    I quickly reloaded when I was shocked to see three zombies practically sprinting towards me, much faster than I had ever seen zombies move before.  I freaked out a bit and had trouble lining them up in the scope but fortunately they were coming right at me and I was able to drop them with three shots apiece before they got too close.  I made a mental note to tell everyone that teen zombies were much quicker than adults or kid zombies.
    I pounded on the roof, and Bill began reversing to give me more room, as a horde of zombies was now shambling at more normal speed down the middle of the street.  I had sixty rounds left and I quick-counted about forty zombies.  Some of them looked familiar.  At least two were in police uniforms, not a