Josh pointed to the building south of the car spot and asked: "What's that?"
"I think it's a butchers."
"Anyway, there's not much of a gap here. If you found a van you could just drive it over the field and wedge it diagonally between the butchers and the nearest house."
Josh walked back to the road.
"So what about this side?" asked Dave.
To the east, from left to right, were the clothing/camping store, an arts and crafts store and a tiny electronics stores that seemed to be selling goods from over fifty years ago.
"Those stores are just not that far apart, so you could easily park a van or some small truck in front of the spaces between."
Dave looked at Josh. "I know that I've got some big plans, but sometimes I struggle with the actual implementation. It's damn helpful having someone to bounce ideas off. But here's the challenge, how do we block the road? Remember we'll need to get a trolly through there somehow." Dave drew out a line in the air that pointed from the butchers to the electronic store.
Josh gave a wink. "Leave that to me. How about you start by finding some vans and the like and parking them over the places that we just mentioned? Start with the two on either side of this art house, and then do the one on the field at the back of the car park. But, if we find a van with big doors on each side then I get first call on it."
"Okay let's get going."
"Let's go south."
Dave looked unsure. "The road south has been cleared by getting the vehicles off the road. They might be stuck."
"What work will work and if it doesn't we just try the the next one."
"I'm good with that. Let's be quick. This could attract some unwelcome visitors."
Together they started walking down the road to the south. The first two vehicles they came across were some four wheel drive SUVs.
"Those are big enough to block the gaps on either side of that arts and craft store," suggested Josh. "And I can see a good looking van just a little further on. Let's spilt up and get to work."
As Josh walked further south along the road, Dave got into the nearest SUV. The keys were still in the ignition. Clearly this vehicle had just been driven off the road. Had it been pushed he probably wouldn't have found the keys. Dave started the engine and hoped the SUV hadn't gotten bogged. He tried reversing and the SUV easily backed up onto the road. Switching to forward, Dave drove up the street and cut close against the arts store and stopped when he was certain that he had closed off the space between the arts store and the clothing store.
Dave turned off the engine and made certain that the doors along the right side of SUV were locked. He scrambled over to the passenger side, opened the door and got out. He closed the SUV's door. Now that he was outside the SUV, Dave carefully inspected how he had parked. It wasn't a waterproof seal, but he couldn't see anyway that a walker could get through. At least if the walkers continued to move the way that they always did.
Satisfied, Dave began walking down the road to try out the second SUV. As he was walking, Josh drove up in a van and parked it face first against the front of the butchers. Josh got out and inspected his park. Seemingly content he jogged over to Dave and together they walked south.
"Decent start," said Josh.
"Luck is on our side so far, and I don't like relying on luck."
"Then let's do this quickly."
With that said, Dave detoured for the nearest SUV. He got in, found the keys were still in the ignition. The SUV started easily and Dave had no problem getting it onto the road. Just like the first SUV he headed towards the arts store, only this time he parked it over the gap between the art store and electronics store.
After scraping against one of the buildings, Dave turned off the engine, locked the doors on the right side, and got out of the left side. He inspected how he parked and couldn't see anything too wrong with it. Dave suspected that they'd have to fill up some gaps here and there at a later time, but for now it would hold off the bulk of trouble.
Dave walked south a bit. He couldn't see where Josh had gone. He couldn't hear the sounds of any vehicles being driven. Because this section of road had fields either side, the open view reassured Dave that so far the noise that they made hadn't attracted any attention. Dave stopped near an abandoned van.
Dave got in the van and started it up. He got up on the road and began driving towards the intersection where he was camped out. Before reaching the butchers, Dave turned left and onto a grassy patch that seem to lead around behind the butchers. It wasn't meant to be a drivable road, and after a few slippery moments, Dave managed to get the van behind the butchers and wedged between that building and the fence surrounding one of the residential houses.
After locking the doors that faced the field, Dave got out of the opposite doors and checked how he had parked. It wasn't particularly good but it would work at a basic level. It would definitely need some more work before he would be confident that it would work as a blocking barrier. Not knowing what else to do Dave walked through the parking lot and out onto the street. Before reaching the street Dave could hear the engine of a heavy vehicle and when he reached the street he could see Josh driving a bus from the south. Dave wondered where Josh had found the bus as he didn't remember one when he had walked to the bridge
