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navigate the car in such poor visibility, and I hoped the vehicles behind us weren’t getting lost or on the verge of a ten-car pileup.
    “ Nick, you’ve gotta pull over! It isn’t safe to be driving around in this freaking hurricane or monsoon or whatever it is,” Jackie scolded. “How can you even see?”
    My brother didn’t answer, as his mind was totally focused on the road.
    The car slowed and shook, jolting me. Glancing out the window, I gasped. Rivers and pools of water were gushing everywhere; clearly, we’d driven right into a flash flood. The water wasn’t all that high yet, but I knew it wouldn’t take much of a tidal wave to topple our car or catch us in the undertow of the raging waters.
    “ We should pull over,” Jackie repeated.
    Claire let out a sigh. “Are you out of your mind? What…you have a bunch of lifejackets or something? Not to mention there are zombies out there.”
    “ People die in storms like this because they’re too foolish to stay off the roads!” Jackie retorted.
    Claire glanced over her shoulder at us. “I realize this isn’t a pontoon boat or anything, but I’d rather take my chances floating around in it than trying to swim away from a horde of bloodthirsty, soaked-to-the-exposed-bone freaks! You thought Jaws was bad, I bet you can’t even imagine the feeding frenzy that would happen if we stepped out of this car right now.”
    “ I get your point, Claire,” I said, “but if we keep driving through this, the belts will get wet, and the engine might stall. At the very least, Nick might lose his power steering, and that would be bad right now, since he can’t see anything as it is,” I chimed in.
    Nick gripped the steering wheel tightly. “Cars can be swept off the road in as little as one foot of moving water, not to mention that roads covered by water can collapse. Maybe we oughtta stop for a while, till the weather settles down a bit.” He tested the brakes, but they felt mushy and squealed, unwilling to stop the car immediately like they should have. “Crap! They’re wet. The water’s up to the center of the wheels.”
    “ Oh no!” Jackie said. “If the water gets any higher, we’re gonna lose control of the car.”
    “ Keep going,” Claire said.
    “ No!” Jackie barked back. “The water’s gotta be two feet deep out there, enough to send an SUV or pickup floating away, and we’re only in a police car! If we get taken by the current and crash into something, the zombies will peel this car open and gobble us up like a can of sardines!”
    “ Jackie’s right,” I said. “We need to stop somewhere…and fast.”
    Nick peered out the window, somehow staying as sickeningly calm, cool, and collected as ever. “Hold on. Let me just find a safe place where we can hole up till the rain stops.”
    “ Guys, I really don’t want to stop,” Claire complained.
    Nick glanced over at her and touched her hand. “If the water gets any higher, babe, our car and all these others will be in danger. The onboard computers will go, and when water gets into the cylinders, the motor will suffer hydro-lock and seize up on me. All the fluids will have to be drained and replaced, and we’ll all need new filters and spark plugs. I don’t know about you, but I haven’t seen an AutoZones around here. We can’t afford to be without transportation. The best option—for our sake as well as the cars—is to park and wait the storm out.”
    Claire glanced out the window, then back at Nick. She bit her bottom lip, as if she was unsure, but finally squeezed his hand and conceded. “You’re right. Just find us somewhere safe, Nick.”
    “ I will. Trust me. I’ve always got your back.”
    “ I know,” she said. “The zombies just freak me out.”
    “ Remember that they’re not superhuman or anything,” he said, trying to reassure her. “They’re just slow, clumsy, and dumb. When we stop, we can outsmart them if we have to. I’ve been dealing with these monsters