Yorktown No More

[Sober Duck]

Yorktown No More
By
Richard Moylan Jr.
Chapter One
The Explosion
The explosion was horrendous. It could be felt as far north as Long Island New York and as far south as Ockracoke North Carolina. Even people in Roanoke Virginia felt the ground shake. The mushroom of smoke, fire and dust could been seen for hundreds of miles. The primary explosions, which took place on the piers, caused chain reactions through out the base that lasted for over twelve minutes. An undetermined tonnage of ordinance exploded that Sunday morning along with two nuclear warheads. To this day there are still two more warheads unaccounted for. The destruction caused by the explosion was widespread and unmeasurable. The Walter P. Coleman Bridge now lies on its side at the bottom of the York River blocking the once important channel. Today, there is a four mile wide bay adjoining the York River where the base use to be. They named the new bay Terrorist Bay. The concussion from the blast leveled almost every house and building on the Gloucester side of the York River. A tidal wave formed that traveled out of the York River, across the Chesapeake Bay and made landfall in Cape Charles. The tidal wave almost made it across the entire width of the Eastern Shore.
The death toll caused by the explosion is still being determined. Clean up efforts and body recovery remain impossible due to the nuclear fallout. So far the body count has reached twenty thousand and grows with each day. Casualties would have been higher if the attack had been on a weekday. Unfortunately there were two guided missile class destroyers tided up at the piers and both were blown out of the water. Parts from one of the ships were found over sixteen miles away. One of the ships destroyed was the recently repaired USS Cole. It was the Cole’s second and final brush with terrorism. The refinery in Yorktown caught fire from falling debris but somehow survived the disaster.
Ironically, Yorktown is no stranger to war and has seen large-scale destruction before although few have ever witnessed such spontaneous mass destruction. The terrorist attack on the Yorktown Naval weapons Station destroyed a five-mile area of land, base and waterfront. Not only was the base destroyed but most of the fishing industry in the Chesapeake Bay was also destroyed due to fall out and fuel spillage. It won’t be safe to fish local waters for twenty years. The Yorktown Area is now a wasteland that is not fit for life and will take years to heel from the scars of terrorism.


Chapter Two, (unfinished)
The Bid
Back in 1997 a contract was opened for bid to rebuild the piers and bulkheads at the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station. Several large corporations submitted bids for the three year job. A Galveston, Texas based construction company had under bid every one else by a million dollars. The Department of the Navy happily awarded Terr Con Corporation the contract and by 1998 the reconstruction had begun.

[stilltrucking]

Neitzsche wrote his "history of the future."

Doris day sang:

Que Sera Sera, what ever will be, will be;
The future's not ours to see

So tempting to conncect the dots.

Hundreds of small propane tanks stolen in the west.
A Chinese man stands before the capital building with two black suitcases.

Enriched uranium missing in Pennsylvania

I think the Harper's Index said there are 50 nuclear bombs that have been lost in the ocean by the US and the USSR

Twelve miles east of Savannah, beneath shallow layers of sand and water, an abandoned 7,600 pound nuclear bomb is biding its time, waiting to rain death and destruction on the southern Atlantic coastline

http://www.fdungan.com/savannah.htm

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