Reborn with Nothing but My Farm and Vengeance in the Apocalypse novel Chapter 237

Chapter 237: Chapter 237: Preparing the Safehouse

Melody Summers remembered from her past life that the deepest snowdrifts in downtown Anworth had been several meters thick, reaching as high as the third or fourth floor. The Summers family’s villa would also be buried by the blizzard.

Melody Summers decided to move her family out of the villa before the snow started.

Her initial plan was to move her family into a hotel, but she was shocked to discover that starting next month, several luxury hotels, including the Nimbus Hotel, had suspended all reservations.

It seemed that high-ranking officials and the wealthy had gotten word in advance about the coming blizzard and had already snatched up all the rooms.

Anworth, after all, was a first-tier city with thousands of households whose assets were in the hundreds of millions. In the face of such wealth and power, ordinary people stood no chance of getting a reservation.

Melody Summers stared at the pages marked "Fully Booked" and thought, ’Good thing I saw this coming and bought two high-floor apartments in the residential complex. Otherwise, this would have been a real problem.’

The two apartments Melody Summers bought were 1605 and 1606 in Building 4. She was already familiar with 1606, having lived there in her past life. Back then, Elaine Hughes and Robert Lancaster were still wealthy and hadn’t spared any expense on it, so its facilities were top-notch. The previous owner of 1605 had also been rich and had given it a similarly luxurious renovation.

Both apartments came fully furnished, complete with comprehensive water purification and climate control systems. The doors and windows had been reinforced right after she bought them, and anti-theft and surveillance systems had been installed.

Now, Melody Summers just needed to stock the apartments with all the supplies her family would need for the coming days.

Melody first walked into 1606 and inspected the room, then passed through a hidden connecting door into 1605. Just then, Albus leaped out of her storage space and landed in her arms.

Melody stroked Albus’s belly, studying the layout of the two apartments while silently calculating the amount of supplies she needed to store.

She couldn’t hoard too many supplies in these two apartments. After all, the floor’s load-bearing capacity was nothing compared to the villa’s basement.

The tragic sight of an owner in Building 4 who had smashed through their balcony floor by hoarding too many supplies was still fresh in her mind. Melody had no intention of repeating that mistake. She had to be meticulous, make rational use of the floor’s load capacity, and calculate every single item down to the last detail.

Melody decided to set up the bedrooms first. Between the two apartments, there were five bedrooms in total. Since the couple, Grace Sutton and Colin Summers, always shared a room, the remaining four were just enough for everyone else. Each person could have their own room, ensuring they all had their own private space.

All five bedrooms were already furnished with beds, cabinets, and other furniture, so Melody didn’t need to acquire anything else.

She put away some unnecessary trinkets and decorations, temporarily storing them in her dimensional space to free up more storage room.

She stuffed the desk drawers and storage cabinets in each bedroom with common medicines and daily necessities like heat packs, toilet paper, wet wipes, and skincare products.

After filling the desks and cabinets, she opened the wardrobes and filled them with the cold-weather clothing she had previously hoarded.

Thermal underwear, down jackets, cotton-padded coats...

As well as furs, scarves, and gloves...

Her family would just need to bring some personal changes of clothes with them.

Finally, she laid a heating blanket on each bed and added several thick cotton quilts and woolen blankets. It would be incredibly cozy to snuggle under the covers when the weather turned cold.

After setting up the cabinets and beds, she took out the fan heaters, oil-filled radiators, and radiant heaters she had bought earlier from her dimensional space. If the air conditioners failed to work in the extreme cold, these devices would serve as a backup.

Just as she was about to leave, Melody suddenly recalled some news stories she had read about fires caused by people forgetting to turn off their electric blankets. She went back and placed a few fire extinguishers in each bedroom.

With the bedrooms arranged, that left the two studies and the fitness room in 1605.

Melody didn’t plan on clearing out the fitness room. During the blizzard, no one would be able to go outside, so having a gym for the family to exercise in would be a good thing.

As for the two studies, Melody planned to use them primarily for hoarding other essential supplies.

Melody moved all the furniture and decorations from the studies into her dimensional space. Then, she took out numerous storage racks and arranged them in the rooms.

’The load-bearing capacity of a residential building is about 200 kilograms per square meter,’ Melody thought. ’I have to keep the weight within that limit while I’m stocking up.’

The first thing to hoard was energy. Melody remembered from her past life that during the deep freeze, the government’s heating was intermittent. Due to energy shortages, the government later began rationing electricity.

She first moved two generators into the room, followed by a dozen or so barrels of gasoline and diesel. From her previous experience, Melody knew this fuel would be consumed quickly; this amount probably wouldn’t last until the end of the blizzard.

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