Looking down at his phone, the plant manager’s phone number appears on the caller I.D.

“Shit, he is probably going to try and send you guys out,” Will tells the drivers as he looks up from the computer for the first time. 

The plant manager instructs Will to lock the gates and shut all the trucks down.  After locking down the plant and turning off the trucks, Will turns on other news websites to listen to other reports.  Deacon calls his parents, waking them up.  He tells them to turn on the TV.  Deacon hangs up the phone with his parents and immediately calls Greg with the intentions of getting them up to watch the news.  He can hear Lana bawling uncontrollably in the background.  Greg immediately explains that they are already up, and that Lana was talking to her brother who works for a private security contractor, manning the gates at the Air Force Base. 

“She could hear everything that was going on before the phone went dead,” Greg tells Deacon. 

Next Deacon calls his sister to make sure that her family is aware of the situation at hand, she is worried.  Tom had to work late and never made it home.  Deacon tries to reassure her that everything will be alright as he hangs up with her.  The remaining employees at the beer plant are all calling loved ones, waking them up so that they will turn on the news broadcasts.  The anxiety is thick, weighing heavily on every single person in the plant.     

            Almost everyone stays until day break, then they begin to leave a few at a time.  Deacon walks out with Will and Trent.  Looking at the interstate, which can be seen from the plant, not one sign of movement can be found.  They wouldn’t be able to hear anything if they tried, due to the noise from the jets and helicopters overhead.  Will being the doomsday’er that he is, tells the other two men they had better get heading home and prepare for whatever may be coming.