Well that was a "warm" reception to my home town.

"Warm" as in met with a shotgun at a steel barricade across one of the two roads into the valley. Kinda waiting out here in the jeep for a while till someone confirms I am from Coalinga....

Well besides that it was an interesting trip across the valley. I think it was a good idea of mine to strap a Geiger counter outside on the hood and have one inside sitting on the dash.

Can see a ton of smoke to the north from Fresno...I'm worried that they might've been hit directly and the town's still burning.

Passed on a note to an officer in Parlier who flagged me down when he saw I had a running vehicle, said something about the local gangs being more cooperative now that the world had ended.

Selma was a ghost-town didn't see anyone there.

Hanford was the same as Selma, though Hanford was the site of one of those Higher capacity Bunkers like in Los Angeles and Bakersfield. I might come back through and see if I can find the entrance there and see if they have anything they want the outside world to know.

Leemoore was relatively safe, though most anything electronic there was fried. Kinda hot with radiation though, but  some of the people there said it had been an airburst and the NAS base had been hit with conventional weapons after the nuke went off. The navy's more of less got Leemoore handle'd pretty well.

I did mention their fire crew was present and accounted for, and the serviceman I spoke to said he'd forward it up the chain of command.

Anyway back to Coalinga.

Managed to bypass the I-5 on an old overpass, and a bunch of twisting roads till I got into the foothills. A bit past an area called "stinky Hollow" I hit the roadblock.. well it was more of a wall in one of the roadbed cuts. The guy there called me an outsider and to "git the hell gone"
ave him my address..
....Waiting patiently in the hopes someone who recognizes my name hears about me.. gave them my address and my family is kinda known in town. He did say he was impressed an outsider knew all the big names in town but he wasn't convinced and the other people at the gate were CO's that I didn't recognize.

Oh well. All I can do is browse the internet  and twiddle my thumbs until someone lets me in.