sssarawolf
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Thank you.
Story Autumn in the Cascades
- Thread starter Chapulin
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Post 16
It was a cold winter with plenty of snow even on the back slope. The internal fence around the “garden” had been added. There were a staggering mix of personnel coming and going. We sent personnel to Yakima and Joint base Lewis and McChord for weapons training and practice. A mix of new and experienced cook teams were brought in for training and a research function I wasn’t briefed on. The results in the mess halls were above average according to those that know.
Our front gate is finished and tire teeth have been installed. During the early winter I shifted my work schedule to be with Nancy mid-week and be on site during the weekend. We brought a realtor in to our Northgate house to give us a market analysis and talk about our eventual plans to sell it.
Half of the garden will be used each growing season and then resting for the next season. The site took advantage of the repeat Christmas Eve ceremonies in Leavenworth and sent interested small groups each time. Nancy joined me for one of the performances. The winter time pictures of the Quonset huts are looking especially nice and will be submitted for photo contests around the area. The soldiers have helped a number of stranded motorists along with our neighbors in the areas.
The garden area had more composted manure added to the resting half and we planted rye over the whole plot. We turned the active half (16ft x 20ft) in late March and early April. We are supposed to be freeze free from late April until Mid-October (about 175 days). We laid out the walking rows and the planting rows. From the south the first line was zucchini, peppers and eggplant. The middle line was tomatoes and the third line had spinach, basil and kale along the walkway. The middle row started with a line of strawberries, the second line had tire stacks growing potatoes on both ends with peas between. The third line near the next walking path had green beans. The north row held the 3 sisters. Circular areas with corn in the middle, squash around the circumference and dry shelling beans inside growing up the corn stalks. A number of soldiers helped weed and water the plot and the cooks selected and harvested the produce.
In the PNW we forecast bad fires every summer. Our Hot Shot crews are hired in late spring and exercise to get into their best physical shape by mid-June.
In May in the middle of the day my phone rang and it was our neighbor Clint, “This is an alert. This not a drill.” “We have enemies driving north near Leavenworth in a Hot Shots truck.” “Our neighborhood watch is monitoring the event.”
It was a cold winter with plenty of snow even on the back slope. The internal fence around the “garden” had been added. There were a staggering mix of personnel coming and going. We sent personnel to Yakima and Joint base Lewis and McChord for weapons training and practice. A mix of new and experienced cook teams were brought in for training and a research function I wasn’t briefed on. The results in the mess halls were above average according to those that know.
Our front gate is finished and tire teeth have been installed. During the early winter I shifted my work schedule to be with Nancy mid-week and be on site during the weekend. We brought a realtor in to our Northgate house to give us a market analysis and talk about our eventual plans to sell it.
Half of the garden will be used each growing season and then resting for the next season. The site took advantage of the repeat Christmas Eve ceremonies in Leavenworth and sent interested small groups each time. Nancy joined me for one of the performances. The winter time pictures of the Quonset huts are looking especially nice and will be submitted for photo contests around the area. The soldiers have helped a number of stranded motorists along with our neighbors in the areas.
The garden area had more composted manure added to the resting half and we planted rye over the whole plot. We turned the active half (16ft x 20ft) in late March and early April. We are supposed to be freeze free from late April until Mid-October (about 175 days). We laid out the walking rows and the planting rows. From the south the first line was zucchini, peppers and eggplant. The middle line was tomatoes and the third line had spinach, basil and kale along the walkway. The middle row started with a line of strawberries, the second line had tire stacks growing potatoes on both ends with peas between. The third line near the next walking path had green beans. The north row held the 3 sisters. Circular areas with corn in the middle, squash around the circumference and dry shelling beans inside growing up the corn stalks. A number of soldiers helped weed and water the plot and the cooks selected and harvested the produce.
In the PNW we forecast bad fires every summer. Our Hot Shot crews are hired in late spring and exercise to get into their best physical shape by mid-June.
In May in the middle of the day my phone rang and it was our neighbor Clint, “This is an alert. This not a drill.” “We have enemies driving north near Leavenworth in a Hot Shots truck.” “Our neighborhood watch is monitoring the event.”
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sssarawolf
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Cliff, Cliff. Goodness.
If they are not firefighters in the truck.
Post 17
I said “Clint I’m going to put you hold while I get some others moving.”
I call our radio operator desk and repeat “This is not a drill.” “A Hot Shot truck is heading north toward us with unknown shooters. “Get the state to set up road block at the Summit and get our Guards activated if they stop here.” “Alert the command around us.”
Radio Bob kept it short, “Site Alert and Communicate.”
My task done, I took Clint off hold, “What is the rest of the story?”
Neighbor Clint responded, “A Hot Shot crew was volunteering for the week at Ohme Gardens above Wenatchee and were slaughtered by the Perps now in their truck.” ”The truck is being tailed by a state trooper who picked it up south of Leavenworth at the McDonalds.” “They are being given a clear path through Leavenworth on to the Rest Stop and the Nason Creek Cutoff.” “Thank God, the rescuers at Ohme Garden report they have found a survivor and he is being transported to the hospital.”
I cut in, “That is good news.” “Let me check our radio team has picked up the tailing State Trooper.” “Radio desk do you copy”
Radio Bob responded. “Yes, Sir”
I said, “There is a State Trooper following our Truck.”
Thankfully Radio Bob said, “We picked up his communication about 5 minutes ago and we are monitoring.
I say, “Thank you for confirming, out” “Clint thanks for calling, stay safe, I have a list to do.”
My assigned spot was the radio room and I got there as the USFS broadcast that all their vehicles are being recalled and the only Forest Service label truck on the road in a half hour will be the stolen truck. I think this could be over in the next half hour. I remind the radio desk to tell those on the ground to cover our tire teeth with leaves and get them deployed.
Given our preparation and training we will be patient and informed. Early planning had us fast attack as soon as the tires were in their teeth. It turned out that waiting for them to spread out will give us more control of the situation. The order was let most of them get out and formed up.
We start shooting when the first team is 100 feet out. We have divided the field with the approach road to the highway, the residential side of the front Quonset to our road and from the residential side to the back fence. We wake up some shift workers and distribute our guards and supplemental shooters across the 3 corridors. We have a M240 machine gun with a spotter and a MP5/10 in each corridor. We also place a soldier at each entry container with a MP5/10 and a shotgun if anybody gets through. We have support arranged for helicopter backup if required and available. But any of those would take 40 minutes on a good day.
The radio desk reports “The truck with the bad guys are past the Rest Stop and the cut off, expect them at our door momentarily.”
Our spotter closest to the gate, started broadcasting “They just turned in to us.” “Front wheels locked in the teeth.” “Boots on the ground out their back door.” “I hear gunshots from the highway.”
Apparently the State Trooper is peppering the back door of the crew box with his 9mm S&W M&P 2.0. That should reduce the attackers numbers and will hurry them along into our net. I stay in the radio room looking at the cameras.
I say, “Radio Bob tell ‘em I have a leader outside the driver’s door on the backside of the truck.”
Other cameras are showing crouched adversaries approaching the buildings. Over the radio I hear, “120 feet out, pick your targets”. “100 feet out, shoot, shoot.”
Our soldiers were disciplined and were taking shots of opportunity without a constant barrage. It felt like half of the opponents were down in the first few minutes. The state patrol reported 3 down at the back of the truck. He will monitor and deal with anybody getting on the highway. Adversaries are continuing to advance a couple of steps and get picked off by good shooting on our side. Only one made it inside the 40 foot perimeter. After 15 minutes 2 raise their arms and leave their weapons on the ground. The driver in the truck follows suit. A final tally showed 13 dead or wounded and 3 captured. A local ambulance came and took the injured with a state police escort. A Homeland Security vehicle came in later and took the 3 captured away. We ended up with 2 lightly wounded amongst the soldiers. The attack appeared to be foreign terrorists with mainly short barrel AK-74’s. Luckily I had soldiers to file this report. I didn’t fire a shot.
I said “Clint I’m going to put you hold while I get some others moving.”
I call our radio operator desk and repeat “This is not a drill.” “A Hot Shot truck is heading north toward us with unknown shooters. “Get the state to set up road block at the Summit and get our Guards activated if they stop here.” “Alert the command around us.”
Radio Bob kept it short, “Site Alert and Communicate.”
My task done, I took Clint off hold, “What is the rest of the story?”
Neighbor Clint responded, “A Hot Shot crew was volunteering for the week at Ohme Gardens above Wenatchee and were slaughtered by the Perps now in their truck.” ”The truck is being tailed by a state trooper who picked it up south of Leavenworth at the McDonalds.” “They are being given a clear path through Leavenworth on to the Rest Stop and the Nason Creek Cutoff.” “Thank God, the rescuers at Ohme Garden report they have found a survivor and he is being transported to the hospital.”
I cut in, “That is good news.” “Let me check our radio team has picked up the tailing State Trooper.” “Radio desk do you copy”
Radio Bob responded. “Yes, Sir”
I said, “There is a State Trooper following our Truck.”
Thankfully Radio Bob said, “We picked up his communication about 5 minutes ago and we are monitoring.
I say, “Thank you for confirming, out” “Clint thanks for calling, stay safe, I have a list to do.”
My assigned spot was the radio room and I got there as the USFS broadcast that all their vehicles are being recalled and the only Forest Service label truck on the road in a half hour will be the stolen truck. I think this could be over in the next half hour. I remind the radio desk to tell those on the ground to cover our tire teeth with leaves and get them deployed.
Given our preparation and training we will be patient and informed. Early planning had us fast attack as soon as the tires were in their teeth. It turned out that waiting for them to spread out will give us more control of the situation. The order was let most of them get out and formed up.
We start shooting when the first team is 100 feet out. We have divided the field with the approach road to the highway, the residential side of the front Quonset to our road and from the residential side to the back fence. We wake up some shift workers and distribute our guards and supplemental shooters across the 3 corridors. We have a M240 machine gun with a spotter and a MP5/10 in each corridor. We also place a soldier at each entry container with a MP5/10 and a shotgun if anybody gets through. We have support arranged for helicopter backup if required and available. But any of those would take 40 minutes on a good day.
The radio desk reports “The truck with the bad guys are past the Rest Stop and the cut off, expect them at our door momentarily.”
Our spotter closest to the gate, started broadcasting “They just turned in to us.” “Front wheels locked in the teeth.” “Boots on the ground out their back door.” “I hear gunshots from the highway.”
Apparently the State Trooper is peppering the back door of the crew box with his 9mm S&W M&P 2.0. That should reduce the attackers numbers and will hurry them along into our net. I stay in the radio room looking at the cameras.
I say, “Radio Bob tell ‘em I have a leader outside the driver’s door on the backside of the truck.”
Other cameras are showing crouched adversaries approaching the buildings. Over the radio I hear, “120 feet out, pick your targets”. “100 feet out, shoot, shoot.”
Our soldiers were disciplined and were taking shots of opportunity without a constant barrage. It felt like half of the opponents were down in the first few minutes. The state patrol reported 3 down at the back of the truck. He will monitor and deal with anybody getting on the highway. Adversaries are continuing to advance a couple of steps and get picked off by good shooting on our side. Only one made it inside the 40 foot perimeter. After 15 minutes 2 raise their arms and leave their weapons on the ground. The driver in the truck follows suit. A final tally showed 13 dead or wounded and 3 captured. A local ambulance came and took the injured with a state police escort. A Homeland Security vehicle came in later and took the 3 captured away. We ended up with 2 lightly wounded amongst the soldiers. The attack appeared to be foreign terrorists with mainly short barrel AK-74’s. Luckily I had soldiers to file this report. I didn’t fire a shot.
sssarawolf
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Thank you 
Post 18
Many of us attend the memorial service for the Hot Shots, every one of them cut down in their prime. A senseless killing of people that provide an essential service to our communities. The survivor attended in a wheel chair and spoke about that day. I led a community prayer for those that fell that day. I ended with:
“O Lord, grant us the grace to grow deeper in our respect of and care for your Creation”.
The rest of the summer had some false alarms and very little about why the incident had happened were ever released. The court case for the injured and captured terrorists did bring out they were under the impression we had explosives stored on site that could be liberated with an overwhelming force. Late summer I did invite neighbor Clint and his neighborhood watch with families for a noon time picnic. The cooks raided the garden and worked up a wonderful meal. We had some demonstrations and tours of the site. I talked about the building design and had some interesting questions. As autumn approached we put the gardens to bed and picked up our walking paths and then spread composted manure and seeded a couple of cover crops. We brought in George Hayduke, the injured hot shot from the summer, as my assistant. I flew with Nancy to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to consult with the progress of the Company buildings up there and took a few days of vacation.
This concludes this chapter. Thanks for reading.
Winter in Astoria (An Intro for another chapter I am working on)
The bomber team received the 20 foot container with a layer of underwater contact mines and a layer of IEDs under bales of lavender. They had rented a small house with a car port on the Washington side and a house and a separate drive in warehouse space on the Oregon side. The contact mines would start with a couple in low chance areas adding a couple in very likely areas over 2 weeks. After the first week IEDs would start being deployed and triggered on area highways. The bombers’ ability to avoid capture would determine the plan on this side of the plan. The US has a distributed alert system and the organizations may be slow to piece together that they are under attack by land and by sea.
Many of us attend the memorial service for the Hot Shots, every one of them cut down in their prime. A senseless killing of people that provide an essential service to our communities. The survivor attended in a wheel chair and spoke about that day. I led a community prayer for those that fell that day. I ended with:
“O Lord, grant us the grace to grow deeper in our respect of and care for your Creation”.
The rest of the summer had some false alarms and very little about why the incident had happened were ever released. The court case for the injured and captured terrorists did bring out they were under the impression we had explosives stored on site that could be liberated with an overwhelming force. Late summer I did invite neighbor Clint and his neighborhood watch with families for a noon time picnic. The cooks raided the garden and worked up a wonderful meal. We had some demonstrations and tours of the site. I talked about the building design and had some interesting questions. As autumn approached we put the gardens to bed and picked up our walking paths and then spread composted manure and seeded a couple of cover crops. We brought in George Hayduke, the injured hot shot from the summer, as my assistant. I flew with Nancy to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to consult with the progress of the Company buildings up there and took a few days of vacation.
This concludes this chapter. Thanks for reading.
Winter in Astoria (An Intro for another chapter I am working on)
The bomber team received the 20 foot container with a layer of underwater contact mines and a layer of IEDs under bales of lavender. They had rented a small house with a car port on the Washington side and a house and a separate drive in warehouse space on the Oregon side. The contact mines would start with a couple in low chance areas adding a couple in very likely areas over 2 weeks. After the first week IEDs would start being deployed and triggered on area highways. The bombers’ ability to avoid capture would determine the plan on this side of the plan. The US has a distributed alert system and the organizations may be slow to piece together that they are under attack by land and by sea.
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sssarawolf
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Thank you.
Griz3752
Retired, practising Curmudgeon
Great image of the Q hut: 20'W?
Siskiyoumom
Veteran Member
The dog In the photo sure does look like my Thelma, may she Rest In Peace.
Laurane
Canadian Loonie
Surely you have extras of the favorites...... 3 is 2, 2 is 1 etc..... makes a non-frowning cook.
Probably 30'W, for dome structures Height is half the Width.
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Laurane
Canadian Loonie
Who wouldn’t want one??….. but buried between a couple of hills except for a front entrance and an exit tunnel
I'd like a 30' x 40' (1200 SF) set on 5' side walls to give a 20' central height. That would mean easier to use standard shelving on side walls and give a smaller second floor. Buried or earth sheltered of course. Rocket mass heater in center and maybe an open fireplace for heat. A geothermal cooling system to augment the natural coolness of an earth sheltered home.
No, I haven't put much thought into this. (/s)
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