parking lot. If people take our chassis (or the exposed Freightliners), it will take that much longer for us to be moved. The container access doors are all ‘inside’ and test-opened to confirm we can get to the provisions within them. A couple containers have special side entrances because both of their ends are exposed. To speed up the process, the perimeter looks more like a very-squished hexagon. The side entrances are needed at the top and bottom, where all the rest (except the doors) can face ‘left’ or ‘right’ as you look down on the hexagon. We lose a fair amount of internal space to the thickness/width of the containers and parked Box Trucks, but we still have a 500 x 100 foot (more than an acre) remaining space. We have about 120 live people and two dozen vampires, so our density is a bit better than the Buena Vista amusement park.
❦ The fifth-wheelers provide facilities — like bathrooms and kitchens, and the Living Vehicles also provide a large amount of Solar power. The ones we have pull over 3kW from the sun at peak and can store more than 2kW-days. We ended up using eight of them to get 25kW and more than a kW-week of storage. They are also our primary dialysis caves, so are the most essential. We also have caves set up in the containers in case the primaries are targeted, but getting power to them requires either wiring or a diesel generator. And washing is more complicated. We did bring a large number of ‘cable speed bumps’ so we can run electricity and water where ever we need them. The other four fifth-wheelers are all Forest River Sandpipers because they have two bathrooms. In total, we have 16 bathrooms, which is quite luxurious for a group like this.
❦ We set up twenty six tents — to mostly cover the grounds. - 63 -
