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When Joanne woke up her eyes were very blurry as she slowly registered what had happened the seveal hours ago that...in a instant the world was ablaze...rushing winds an then dark empty unconcouosness.

Her ears were ringing still but she could still hear as was evidenced by the sound of fire crackling as it burned at the wood underpinnings of what was left of the roof's support beams an other ragged combustable things outside.

Slowly her eyes stopped water enough she could see a hazy gray an slightly brown world where dirt an ask from the fires buring and forced carbonization of several kilometers of land were ejected into the sky .

She shook her head and quickly went to the basement to the laundry room knowing she was in a race now to hold off as much Radioactive Exposure as she could.

She quickly threw off her contaminated clothes an put on a realitive clean outfit still on top of the dryer. Then went to the small utility sink beside the washer an thourghly washed her face hands feet an any air exposed skin.

Throwing the wrag down she grabbed her old 10 speed bike an tested the pedals an chain to see that they were in working order after all the bike had been sitting leaned against that wall for over 5 years now....an a Nuke going off means any nearby electronics are fried because of the EMP pluse from the Nukes explosion.

Looking around one last time grabbing a bib cap to hold her long alburn hair together as she put the hat on open the basement's access door..an sat the bike up an began to pedal slowly heading the opposite direction of the still collapsing mushroom cloud she looked back at the house....... "Goodbye..."