Going to be hiking into the mojave from here on out. The roads in are wasted and the glass shredded the tires on the lead humvee, if it's like this all the way to where we're going we'll have wasted all this fuel for nothing.

I am going to make a suggestion to the lieutenant in charge that we might be able to use a crawler from the shop we raided for goggles before we start hiking in. If we sent it first and pulled a drag behind it, we'd have a good enough road cleared.

Found a "glass" rattlesnake. My best guess is that when the bombs hit the blast compacted sand into the body of the snake, and then the heat from it melted the glass around it before incinerating the flesh leaving it hollow inside.  At least, that's my best guess. I have no idea if that's what happened. for all I know it could have been aliens that made it.

Spent the morning chipping it out of the surrounding melted dirt and sand then wrapped it up. Going to take it home and see about getting it to my mom.


Did I mention it's cold out here? The water cans we had froze up into a slush last night and it's barely above freezing right now. It's also windy.