It wasn’t the cars or the customers that kept her away from home—it was her project.
How big must the water header tank on the roof be? If chaos first descended in the Grandfather’s generation then the utilities must have stopped decades ago.
I would flip the focus of this and say something like ’so there were multiple escape routes’.
making it hard to become trapped
missing a ’so that’ or perhaps?
If they were being tracked, they needed to get far enough ahead their trail would go cold.
I feel like this whenever I’m put on hold by customer services!
They had been so desperate, so in need of a little hope, they had believed a recording of a stranger’s voice.
As a ’non-reversible’ asthmatic I feel like this every time I do cardio!