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bags. Then he took six bottles of drinking water from an open case behind him and placed two in each backpack. He added four granola bars from a package in the cupboard.
         Lastly, he took a black sharpie and a 5” x 7” index card and sat down to write:
     
    Dear Zachary,
         “Wherever you are when the power goes out and the cars all stop, take this backpack and make your way home immediately.
         Move only in daylight. If you cannot make it home before dark, spend the night in an abandoned car. They will be everywhere. All the streets and freeways will be covered with them. Find one that is unlocked, crawl in and sleep there. The next morning continue on your way home.
         Do not talk to anyone. You will not know who is friend and who is foe.
        Place four batteries in the radio and turn it on. Do not let anyone see you do this. They might try to take it away from you. Leave it on channel 5 and call me when you can do so without being seen. The best way is to crawl inside an abandoned car and duck down.
         When you get home I may or may not be there. If I am not, wait until I get there. If anyone tries to rob the house, do not resist them. Let them take whatever they want. I don’t want you getting hurt trying to protect the house. The house is not worth your life.
         I love you, Zachary. This will be hard, but we will get through it together.”
     
         He made a second note, identical except that this one was made out for his oldest son Jordan. He placed one note in each of two backpacks and set them aside.
         He was finishing up when Jordan walked into the house and said, “Hey, the pizza guy pulled up right behind me. All right, no Dad cooking tonight!” Zachary laughed and they high fived each other.
         Scott handed Jordan two twenties and said, “You guys start without me, I’m in the middle of something. Jordan, let me borrow your car keys.”
         While his sons got into a lively debate at the dinner table about whether Canadian bacon and ham were the same thing, Scott went out to the garage. He rolled a brand new ten speed bicycle into the driveway, took the wheels off of it, and placed it into Jordan’s trunk. Then he placed the wheels on top of it. He took the back pack he prepared for Jordan and shoved it into the back part of the trunk, where it would be out of the way.
         Then he went back into the house.
         “You guys finished yet?”
         Zachary had pizza sauce on his chin. He wasn’t the neatest of eaters.
         “Nope. Not yet.”
        “Well, then, grab another piece and come outside. I have something to show you.”
         Each of the boys grabbed a slice of pizza for the trip and followed Scott out into the driveway.
         Jordan looked inside the trunk of his car and saw the new bicycle and backpack.
         “Hey, cool, but why…”
         “Okay, boys, I want you to listen closely, this is important.”
         Jordan and Zachary sensed a seriousness in Scott’s voice and gave him their undivided attention.
         “You guys know I am not the kind of person who freaks out unnecessarily. But I have a very good reason to believe that a major change is coming to the earth sometime in the next year or two. I don’t know exactly when. It could be five minutes from now, or next year, or the year after that. But I am certain it is going to happen. At some point, there will be a major solar storm on the surface of the sun. It will produce  a series of solar flares the likes we haven’t seen in our lifetimes. In fact, these will be greater than any we’ve experienced since man started developing machines.
         “Do you remember a couple of months ago, when there were some solar flares that disrupted the communications satellites, and our cell phones kept dropping calls and the TV picture kept going out?”
         The boys looked at each other and shook their