Mater? Wasn't that the name of the tow truck in Cars? Git 'r done Rick :)


I guess the barriers you enact would depend largely on the situation, the nature of the EOW. It's hard to argue with stone and brick walls, but in some situations you may actually want to clear the brush around your place like back in Nam. They would clear the foliage so the sappers would have no place to hide.

A note on sappers; although Mitch may seem like a whacko, keep in mind he has likely studied this crap more than any of the illiterate zipperheads who worked successfully as sappers in VN. Sappers were eerily patient, they would take all night to crawl into your area. They did not have to be rocket scientists, just extremely patient and committed to killing you.

My fallback shelter is in the sticks. Sitting down in a valley, it is perfect for avoiding a nuculear or meteorite blast (unless it is a direct hit) and along a minor highway so traffic would be lighter. The ranch sits in the middle of a fenced area, with field fencing cutting up the lots into smaller and smaller areas. Anyone trying to come at us will have to stand and climb over the fence. That'll set off the ten dogs, which'll in turn set off the armed guards (my dad has even more weapons than I do!)

See, out there we are used to watching for illegals. They wander by all the time, so we keep an eye out. If Mitch wanted to come out to the ranch, he'd have to park miles and miles away because we would hear the vehicle and see the dust trail. See, country people are extra sensitive to sounds. In the country you can hear a car before it is audible, you actually feel it.

So there's Mitch, low-crawling like a sapper through catclaw, cactus, mesquite, and palo verde...ouch! Finally when he gets close to the house, he spooks the rabbits that live on the edge of the yard, the ones too fast for the dogs to catch. The rabbits in turn spook the dogs, who alert us. We wait until dark, switch on the night vision gear and snipe you as you creep through the brush.