Post by InSanIty on May 13, 2013 16:24:51 GMT -5
"Miranda’s disbelief turns to fear in a split second when a meteor knocks the moon closer to the earth. How should her family prepare for the future when worldwide tsunamis wipe out the coasts, earthquakes rock the continents, and volcanic ash blocks out the sun? As summer turns to Arctic winter, Miranda, her two brothers, and their mother retreat to the unexpected safe haven of their sunroom, where they subsist on stockpiled food and limited water in the warmth of a wood-burning stove."
Welcome to Quin Indiana
It was May 18th when the meteor crashed into the moon. Meteors had hit the moon before, why should this be any different? But it was different, very different. Not even scientist expected that the moon was going to be knocked out of it's orbit, but it was.
When it was pushed out of orbit, people started to get scared. Quin was a riot - the United States was a riot - the world was a riot. People panicked, it was amazing to see the fear in the news reporter's eyes as the revealed photo's of our newly enlarged moon. 'Don't worry every thing is going to be fine!' I recall them saying, just minutes before the tsunamis started.
Tsunamis. They crashed into New York, pummeled Madagascar, and covered any low area's of Japan. Millions drowned, family's were killed, lives, destroyed.
In the next day all shops had been emptied. In Quin, there were so many call-ins that kids would be absent, they cancelled school all together. Since most of the oil refineries were washed out to see, gas skyrocketed.
It was only spring. But summer was worse. There wasn't much food, and mosquitoes spread disease. Many more people died there, bug spray supplies completely ran out. It wasn't too bad in Quin, but the heat started to kill crops, and there wasn't enough water to keep of heat stroke.
By November, most of Quin was dead. It had went quickly from hot, to cold. Tornado's were part of every person in Indiana's life, but they came more violent than the last, faster, a record of 336 in three months. Only one hit Quin, Indianapolis was destroyed, by 28 different tornado's.
In late November ash started to block out the sun. Volcano's had started to erupt everywhere.
Electricity was unreliable, water was unreliable, and so was mail. The only thing we could count on was snow. It piled in blizzards, all the crops died. Everyone nearly starved. It didn't change much at all as we got to the year after mark.
Now It's May Again