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Kirby Apodaca
to a brittle chip beneath my thumb until it breaks like hard soil in a California forest accepting fire, and before we know itsome new apocalypse will move in with a name like gold, and if the rest of the wild Bonanza map of us starts to burn [End Page 83]
Charged as he was to rouse potentially imperiled viewers from the television-assisted unreality of the drama unfolding before them, a weatherman could hardly be blamed for a little arm-swinging hyperbole. Two years earlier, in 1998, Oklahoma had been hit 146 times by tornadoes, a record in the fifty years that the National Weather Service had been counting. On May 3 of the following year, a uniquely violent storm system sent seventy-six tornadoes spiraling down from the sky in six and a half hours, plowing through central Oklahoma and Kansas, blowing people out of their homes and from under freeway overpasses and killing forty-eight of them. The outbreak destroyed livestock, wrecked 10,000 cars, trucks, and vans, caused $1.2 billion worth of damage. It included the single most damaging tornado in recorded history. It was the seventh most closely followed news event of 1999, and I was among its audience, watching from the protection of my New York City apartment as CNN and the Weather Channel broadcast live footage of tornadoes plowing through farmland and headed straight toward a city of a half million people; the Weather Channel anchor, receiving the live feed from Gary England at Oklahoma City's CBS affiliate, KWTV, was palpably alarmed; England, the hero of the moment, was in fugue state, ordering viewers in the path of the tornado to take cover. "If you're not under ground," he said at one point, "you're not going to make it." Over the next few hours, his reporting would save hundreds of lives.
Saturday: Day off! Two other people and I decided to celebrate this occasion by working, because there is nothing to do near Shell, Wyoming. It was a great decision, too. With three people, instead of just two, we were able to work extremely efficiently, with me sitting in the back of the pickup truck, wearing a poncho, and a yellow highway safety vest, which, I must say is a stunning combination. It was raining, but not very hard, so the puddle I was sitting in wasn't too big. I jumped in and out of the back of the truck 80 times in four hours, and the points were done very efficiently and well. Exciting and fun. Then a great dinner in the only large-ish town around, Greybull. When I got back to camp, Nick was there, so that was a nice couple hour encounter, before he moved to Buffalo the next day, long after we got up.
It seemed simple enough. If you cross a stream once, you can cross it again. In the same place. Apparently not. We were stuck, and no matter how hard we tried, we could not get the truck to get across the stream, or to do anything, except sink. We tried putting everything besides mud underneath it...sticks, twigs, rocks, to give the tires some traction, but it just did not work. I discovered the limits of four wheel drive capabilities today. So after an hour, I decided to run back to the ranger Station that I had seen before. Luckily, as I am not altitude trained, only the very beginning of this trip was uphill, and the rest was downhill. It made the run back take half an hour instead of an hour. I found a volunteer firefighter at the bottom of the hill, since the rangers weren't there, who offerred to help. Him and a friend, both with big trucks, drove me back to my partner and the foundering Ford. Try as they might, they couldn't pull it out. It was buried too deep, and they couldn't get any traction on the muddy grass with their wheels. They told us we would need to call a tow truck.
As they departed their old dwelling, Ember yawned quietly, and then tried to stretch in the small area of the back. The windows were not yet rolled down, and it was chilly in the vehicle. These mountains were the coolest place he had ever been in, for he had always lived in the dense jungles, and only visited the desert(that truly was his specie's natural habitat). Though he was a Reptile, Ember's blood was warm like that of a Bird's. Velociraptors(and the whole complex family of Theropoda, and possibly their extinct close relatives, the Silesaurids) were actually closer in bodily function and form, to Avians than to true Reptilians. Some, but not the InGen clones, had fluffy fibers, and even more had feathers. That meant Ember had more control over his body temperature than a Lizard did it's own. A vast history has been built around the blood of dinosaurs, stretching back to their discovery, even though it was not recognized fully. Originally, dinosaurs were seen simply as old, dumb creatures, of which most was known. And whatever else there was to know? Well, that was unimportant. A view of these animals partially similar to our modern, intellectual understanding, was prominent for a short time, when the "Terrible Lizards" were first being pulled from the Earth. The scientific view, created by Richard Owens, the true discoverer of this new genus, the one who pinned the term "Dinosaur", and the arch nemesis of Charles Darwin(from which there was much hate from the latter to the former, but none from vice versa), was that these creatures were versatile and active, Bird-like, terrible beasts of old, which had gone extinct. This, of course, was not always excepted by uneducated Humanity. It also, along with what the new animals were, brought upon the supposed error in the concept of extinction.
The Chevy was gaining speed as Joshua shifted, his blood pumping, and sweat making his face slick. The high wind had now picked up more, and dust was coming into the Bronco, through the windows, and the exiting bullet holes in the windshield. It was like an action film around Josh, and sometimes life can seem more like a movie, thought himself. This was going to be it: if he could take out the boss in this game of life, he would win it all. The Chevy finally caught up, and was behind the Bronco, but no gunfire occurred. Instead, the man in football gear climbed onto the roof of the truck, and Joshua saw what would happen. Quickly, he started loading his gun again, while the juggernaut prepared for his moment of pathetic glory. Joshua finished loading, right when he felt the shaking THUMP, as the brute hit the top of the vehicle. As soon as he did, Josh heard him move forward: he was going to try to come through the windshield. Sure enough, the bat came down, it's metal form smashing the glass. Joshua aimed his gun right above him, where he guessed the guy would be, and doing damage to his own vehicle, shot through the roof, began slaying the man above. Luckily, his weapon was not pump-action, so damage could be done over and over until empty. The goon's bulky corpse fell off the roof, hit the ground with a plastic clunk, and then was ran over by his comrades who cared not. Spanish screaming once more, and the AK-47s when off. Joshua heard the discharging, and swerved, trying to avert getting shot, but unfortunately, he was hit on the arm. He let out a terrible scream, and cursed. He looked at his arm, and saw a red stain spreading on his flannel jacket, his blood joining that of the Deer's. Joshua kept moving unpredictably, and he heard the raptor let out a bark of pain as he was obviously hit. When he heard that, Joshua felt a surge of broiling, lava-like burning of rage. They had shot the raptor... In panic, his arm bleeding, the dinosaur in the back no doubt bleeding out as well, Joshua leaned out once more, firing again and again, and then a few times more, until he was empty. He managed to shatter the Chevy's glass, and hurt the driver, but that only enraged the gunmen. Joshua continued to try to evade the attack, but he knew that he was going to get shot up. In desperation, he looked ahead to see a change in the main road: a ramp to an overpass that went to another highway. That would be his only way out, he knew. Shifting, his blood pumping still, in his body, and out, he sped forward, they villains behind him.
He shifted around, not quite gingerly, but more restrained in the hull of the wrecked vehicle. The windows were broken, but most had shards of glass still in their frames. They were blades of crystals waiting for a victim. Soon, he decided to head out the window to his left, which because of the reversion, was the right back window. He climbed out, his bulk sliding through, only getting a few guys from glass. He ignored the pains of small size. Ember exited his near grave, and stood, his form aching. His bullet wound bled still, but his body had already started stopping the discharge of red. The raptor limped in the direction of where they had come. The wind had yet to cease, and it still blew earthen particles in the air, sending lite gusts of sand against the back of his neck. He looked around, and saw nothing of the attackers. That is, until a revelation of sight shown unto him a vehicle coming towards him. It past under the overpass of which they had tried to take, but had gone over. They had arrived, and Ember quickly hid himself behind the vehicle, away from the Humans' eyes. Ember waited for them to stop, which he knew they would do. He crouched as they drove their automobile up to their masterpiece of destruction. The Dromaeosaur prepared himself for the filth to show themselves. They stopped, and he heard men jump out, babbling in a language different than Meaty's, of which he had heard spoken only in the southern regions of the world. It seemed the language of Meaty was mostly spoken in the upper parts of Earth, while the other in the southern. Then, one thug came up to the vehicle, and looks in at the corpse of Meaty. The man spoke something, and started to pry the door open with a bar of some sort. He then started taking Meaty's body out. When Ember saw this, he knew what they wanted of them: food. They were going to eat them, dead or alive to begin with. His muscles rippled, and he made his move of fury.
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