First time we’ve come across a building above water since downtown.

A Brookline style shopfront protruded out of the vast ocean flooding the city. Blue boards lined the sun bleached facade, covering the barren brick left exposed on the sides.

Isolation seemed to serve it well. The windows there still intact. The name of the shop was still plastered on the glass. “Earls Antique Goods” maybe we’ll be able to find Earl still attending his little shop. Hopefully he won’t be too mad at us smashing his dust covered windows. Yet as soon as we enter we quickly noticed the vacancy.

The shop was small only two rows of shelves. Covered in decaying nicknacks, now homes for the spiders escaping the water. The brick walls seemed to have escaped the decay of the rest of the store. Still looked as if they where just lain if the construction site was in the middle of the Sahara. Water got the better of the wood though. The floor was rotting away near collapsing from every step. The original colour saturated to a muddy brown.

We all started to look around knowing we’d find nothing. Risky search when we could fall through the floor at any moment.

There is still something that makes it worth the danger. Occasionally we’ll find some of our most valuable supplies from these old shops. Stores of old food cans some unopened. Only thing left to eat after all these years yet rare to find rustless cans. Luck seemed to be against us today. Turned out the shop wasn’t so vacant. We found Earl rotting behind the counter. He’s eaten all the food he had before starving in his own shop. We’ve seen over hundred dead and we expect to see hundreds more. But all in a days work.