Home is an Island
The firemen suggested to Katherine, Peggy, and Danielle that they stay by their homes, not wander through the neighborhood, and promised they would check things out and come back to let everyone know what was going on.
They discussed the fact that the animals all seemed to have wandered off with the firemen. One of the firemen said he read that animals had a sixth sense of the shifting of the earth. Answering Lucy, he smiled as he said he doubted they had all run over to the Zoo.
For a moment his handheld radio squawked, as if it had something to say any second, but it only sputtered before going dead again.
“I will write down your addresses, and please give me your phone numbers, in case we get phone service back. We know it’s going to be a dark night, so we will com
