Any Day Now by Darrell Maloney

Author:Darrell Maloney [Maloney, Darrell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-04-27T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

“Good morning,” Wayne began. “Thank you all for coming. I apologize for the short notice.”

This was different than the mob of reporters who assailed him in his driveway a week before.

These reporters were, for the time being anyway, seated in nice neat rows, recorders and notebooks in hand, paying rapt attention to the man at the podium in front of them.

“I’ll start by telling you what the President has not shared with you: a brief but very powerful description of what the world is in for when Yellowstone erupts.

“And here’s a spoiler for those of you who thought that getting people out of the danger zones was going to fix the problem.

“This thing is gonna be big, and it’s gonna be ugly.

“And it’s going to affect all of us. Every single one of us. Not just the ones in the evacuation zones.

“The President has been misleading you. I don’t know if it’s intentional. I’d like to think it isn’t, but with the government’s track record of cover-ups and kidnappings and murders it wouldn’t be surprising.

“I hope he’s been less than forthcoming because his government scientists are a bunch of cowardly yes-men who are trying to paint a rosy picture for him.

“I am neither paid by the government, nor a yes-man. I’m not beholden to tell the President or anyone else what they want to hear.

“I am here of my own accord with only my conscience to answer to. And my conscience would be troubled indeed if I wasn’t straight with you.

“The world is in trouble. Big trouble.

“I’ve reviewed all the data that Geo-Dynametric’s people gathered, as well as comparable data points collected during similar collection efforts since 1955.

“Comparing such data allows us not only to verify that an eruption is imminent.

“It also allows us to see that the rate of expansion in the magma pool is increasing dramatically. It’s getting ready to blow, and much sooner than the President is ready or willing to admit.

“In the days immediately preceding eruption the eruption area will bubble. The ground will actually swell, like a tick getting ready to pop.

“New fissures will open up, spraying steam and hot dry air hundreds of feet into the air.

“The ground will start to crack.

“Heat from the cracks and the fissures will start forest fires. Millions of acres will start to burn uncontrollably.

“Massive earthquakes will knock down all structures within a hundred miles.

“Plumes of gray ash will travel upward for miles and will make airplane travel impossible for most of the North American continent. Prevailing winds will carry the ash around the world and disrupt international flights as well.

“When the volcano blows it will be four hundred times more powerful than the eruption at Mount St. Helens.

“To put it in different terms, it will be more powerful than every atomic bomb ever exploded, every nuclear weapon ever tested, and every bomb exploded in every war ever fought, combined.

“It will leave a hole in the earth three times as big as the grand canyon.

“The pool of magma is forty two miles wide and sixty one miles long.

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