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black soot marks flowing out of the tops of the windows. Jeb got out and grabbed his rifle. Frank got out too, and then Terry.
    “That pool has seen better days,” Jeb said, laughing.
    “This place is a dump,” Terry said.
    “True, but it’s fixable,” Frank said. “Wonder what’s in that big building back there?” He pointed to a barn-like structure behind the clubhouse, not far from the water tower.
    “If we’re lucky, there are generators,” Jeb said. “But there’s also city electric. Look at the wires.” He pointed to the poles, with wires going into the barn.
    They walked over to meet Charlie and Gabe and the others. Duchess was walking around, sniffing and looking.
    “Kind of a mess,” Charlie said. “But fixable. These are all cinder block buildings, except for that barn back there.”
    “It’s nice in here with all these trees,” Jerry said.
    They walked into the clubhouse. It was fairly bright because of all of the windows. There was broken glass all over the floor. The tables inside looked okay. Same with the chairs. There was a big fireplace on one side of the room, and a stage on the other. There were doors on either side of the stage. They walked over to the door on the right side and pushed it. It opened up into a kitchen that was mostly intact…the windows weren’t broken, and the elements hadn’t gotten a foothold. Gabe turned the faucet. Water flowed out.
    “Wow, the water still works,” he said.
    “Well, until we run out in the water tower,” Jeb said. “Unless we can get the pump working.”
    “Howard said this place has a spring,” Charlie said. “Wonder if he’s got enough pressure to get up into that tower on its own?”
    “No way,” Jerry said. “I think he’s probably pumping it from a reservoir someplace on the property.”
    “That’s a big tank. If it was pretty full when the pump was shut off, we may have enough water up there to last quite a while.
    “I’m going to go look outside,” Gabe said.
    “I’ll go too,” Dobie said, bringing Duchess along.
    “Me too,” Terry said. They walked out and headed back into the area where the coach sites were. The first trailer they saw was burned out. You couldn’t even tell if it was a travel trailer or a 5 th wheel anymore. Terry’s heart sank. “Shoot, that’s not good.”
    Then they got around the back of the barn. There were five more trailers back there, and they all looked reasonably intact. No broken windows. They were dirty, and there was a lot of debris that had collected around them. The three men approached them.
    “Well, I’ll be damned,” Gabe said. “These look like they can be saved.”
    “Yep, they sure do,” Dobie said. “We need to clear the crap away from them, though. Looks like a big fire hazard to me.
    “You look awful happy, kid,” Gabe said, chuckling. “Hoping for a little love nest here, are you?”
    Terry just smiled sheepishly at them.
    “Wow! Look at this!” shouted Charlie. His voice was coming from the barn.

Chapter 4 – The Big Barn
    The men all trotted over to the barn where Charlie and Jerry were standing, looking inside. Jerry had Gabe’s bolt cutters in his hand, and both he and Charlie were still breathing hard. The large chain and padlock were hanging down from one side of the door.
    “How’d you guys cut through a lock that size with those bolt cutters?” Gabe asked.
    “It took both of us,” Jerry said, still a little out of breath, “and we cut the chain, not the lock. That lock is way too big for these cutters.”
    “I thought this was just a ramshackle old wood barn,” Dobie said. “Look at it. It’s steel. It just needs paint.”
    The men pulled the other side of the door open to let in some light.
    “Oh, I see what you were yelling about,” Dobie said. There were two diesel generators in on the left hand side, sectioned off by a chain link cage, with yet another chain and padlock on it. There was a large fuel tank in the cage too, along