Most of this week has been.

"Base gets shelled" All clear is announced, and repairs get done.

Some plane landed at the air base. Scuttlebut is that it's an envoy from the Russians.

Lot of stuff's happened in the last two days. Navy ordered all civilians to evacuate the base, and about mid-afternoon the base got shelled. A couple of the city suburbs got caught up in the shelling and so the navy's been split between  repairs on base and rescue efforts in the affected city areas. I've been running a dozer most of today compacting dirt along the damaged potion of the runway. for some reason no one in the motor pool actually knew how to operate it. I spent a couple hours in the morning teaching a couple of the mechanics how to drive one.

Everything feels shook loose from driving the tractor. Don't want to diss on my dad's farm but it was a lot nicer than our D-6. A newer D-9.

All the jets were in the armored storage, and it'd take more than an artillery barrage to get through the plating.

Whoever was working on it got the radar systems working again mid-morning. According to the one of the announcements over the loludspeakers it's a clusterfuck of air traffic to the north of us at Fresno, no IFF's so it's presumed to be chinese.

They're also picking up a lot of traffic near Castle Air base and Mariposa extreme range artillery, though the transponder codes show them to be various U.S. aircraft some miltary and come civillian, the ones at mariposa are civilian helicopters, Korea Era Hueys  converted into spray rigs probably, and then probably commandeered or something.

Other than that not much to talk about.

Well now that the comm's blackout is over I can post about yesterday and today.

Long story short is the Chinese have landed, and are in control of Fresno International, and the adjoining air base.

When the recon team got back with the radar components they let us know that the entire air attack bas was crawling with Chinese, though they'd left the civilian airfield alone for the most part, aside from using it to land heavy freight planes.

It's probably safe to assume this is happening all along the West coast.

Back in Lemoore. Made a trip yesterday to my apartment, nothing else was in the cache that I haven't already mentioned.

A tenth of an acre really isn't too big anyway, it's only a 66 foot diameter circle. I can probably guess that the maps lead to other caches around the state.

More planes in the air.

The navy troops have asked me to write down everything I've seen where I've been, things like that. I'm not sure why they're asking me when they have working vehicles too, but it gives me something to do when not working on cars.

Saw some planes in the sky. It's common knowledge the radar on base is still down. Everyone seems to be waiting to see what's going to come of it.

Got a soldier to look at the maps. He said they're legal land descriptions down to the tenth of an acre and that I'm probably missing something that goes along with them. So tomorrow I'm going to go back to my apartment and check the cache again.

That trip into the motor-pool was surprisingly informative. A lot of the electrical systems are easily bypassed and I don't need to be rewiring the entire electrical harness.

Made a trip back to Reedley to get those maps and see if any of the soldiers recognize the markings on them.  On the way back to Lemoore I decided to drive up to Fresno and find out what's happening up there.

The short form of it is that the city is divided into three districts now. Everything north of the 180 is more or less controlled by the police force, while the southern half of Fresno is split in half by Highway 41 and controlled by two different gangs. the East is under the watch of the Bulldogs, and the west is controlled by the Italians. Most of the druggies were forced out into area around the 180/41 interchange. All three districts are pretty orderly, surprisingly, and they're allowing people to move between, however they're subject to going through checkpoints and outsiders can only go in certain areas. the police officers I spoke with said they were shocked at how organized the Bulldogs were so soon after the bombs hitting.

Back in Lemoore now.

Got ahold of that lieutenant yesterday.

So the short of it is, what the information they had before they lost communications with everyone else was, that the projected targets were almost textbook for an attack with the intent to invade and take over. Targeted strikes at military locations, but leaving the civilian population centers and useful infrastructure, for the most part alone. Probably the only reasons NAS Lemoore wasn't hit directly was that it 's surrounded by useful farmland.

He also couldn't confirm or deny what the chinese propaganda packets said.

It's kinda weird letting civilians onto the base, the navy personal seem weirded out by it as well as the civilians  but it's probably easier to organize rations and care on base rather than going out into the city. Most of what the people are saying are either they don't believe the Chinese, or they think it was an accident rather than intentional.

As an added bonus I've kinda gotten a cozy job working with a couple friends getting cars operational again for folks. I guess because I have a working jeep it somehow makes me an expert to a lot of the people out here.

Earlier today they got a couple jets operational, and people started cheering when they heard them scream down the runway and take off to do an aerial survey. Other than that haven't seen any other planes in the sky, and the radar unit is fubar. the motor pool guys asked me to come over to see how I'm getting the cars working again. And I'm curious to see on their side of the fence. Going to do that tomorrow.