Sometimes the structure around the tank might be weakened or its rain catchers bent or broken off. In the back yard he checked the hothouse and the water tank. After violent attacks, the planks were often split or partially pried off, and he had to replace them completely a job he hated. He checked each window to see if any of the boards had been loosened. He walked around the house in the dull gray of afternoon, a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth, trailing threadlike smoke over his shoulder. That was why he chose to stay near the house on those days. If he had been more analytical, he might have calculated the approximate time of their arrival but he still used the lifetime habit of judging nightfall by the sky, and on cloudy days that method didn't work. On those cloudy days, Robert Neville was never sure when sunset came, and sometimes they were in the streets before he could get back.
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