I surfed from channel to channel, watching anarchy break out across America. WGN reported riots and looting across Chicago. The local NBC , CBS, ABC and Fox affiliates were all reporting not only the local madness, but of riots breaking out across all the major metropolitan areas of the United States, Europe and Asia. Small town America seemed to have been spared so far, but the madness was blazing out of control everywhere else.

For once, I was glad that I lived way out in the burbs. Dan’s house in Point Loma had always seemed pretty great to me, with its proximity to the beach, downtown and everything else worth seeing in San Diego. But, as far as I knew, there were no bloodthirsty mobs tearing through my neighborhood. And I thought it unlikely that any would make it this far north. My neighbors were a pretty tight group and I figured they’d probably band together to keep things under control. Or I hoped so, anyway.

Luckily, I wasn’t completely unprepared for the coming difficult times ahead.