How We Survive: EMP Survival in a Powerless World

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The day started out like any other. The welding shop was empty, nobody there yet but Hatfield. Coming early to work wasn’t something he enjoyed. It was the price he had to pay for being so good at his job. More skill, more responsibility. That meant less sleep.

Strapping on his leather apron, he gazed out of the doorway as his boss stepped in from the parking lot with a young guy he didn’t recognize strutting beside him. Please say this isn’t a new guy, Hatfield thought to himself. New guys were a pain, not to mention a danger. Welding wasn’t a place for somebody who didn’t know how to handle an electric ARC machine—especially those who didn’t have the patience to properly learn.

“Hatfield! Happy to see you, friend!” Brian called. “Like my daddy used to say, if you’re not ten minutes early, you’re late.”

For as long as he’d known him, Brian had always had the demeanor of a salesman after too many cups of coffee. A little phony at times, but never lacking in enthusiasm.

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