Escaping Darkness (Book 5): Debris by Richards E.S. & Kraus Mike

Author:Richards, E.S. & Kraus, Mike [Richards, E.S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Post-Apocalyptic | Thriller
Publisher: Muonic Press Inc
Published: 2019-12-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

America was vast. It was a fact that Mia had always known very well in theory, but after driving around the country like she had been for weeks on end, she was starting to have a whole new understanding of just how large the place she called home was. Since leaving the scene of the almost-shooting behind, Mia had driven for nearly three hours before swapping with Marcus so the two of them shared the burden. Jesse and Jadon were tasked with keeping them entertained and so, thankfully, the morale had remained mostly high, with a cheerful exchange of stories being shared throughout the car.

When Mia wasn’t driving though, she did find it hard not to get distracted by the scenery outside. They were much farther from Yellowstone by then and while the effects of the eruption were still obvious and everywhere, they were much less so. It gave her hope that things would be all right in Houston and the surrounding area. Mia knew that things would’ve been worse at the beginning of everything. Now, as she looked outside, she truly believed it would be possible to survive things. The only aspect holding them all back was the cold.

That was something that was present no matter how far you traveled. The cold front would not only be affecting America, but the entire world. So far, the effects of the eruption would’ve likely been restricted to the country for the most part. Now the cold was spreading and nowhere would be safe. People on a beach in Australia would suffer just as much as men and women in China, India, South Africa, and everywhere else anyone could think of.

It was called a volcanic winter. Mia remembered the most recent one happening in 1991 when the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines cooled global temperatures for about three years. This was already much more serious and fast-acting, which meant the effects would last for much longer and be much more intense. First the ash cloud would start to cool the planet by blocking out the sun. Following that, the toxic ash particles layered with sulfuric acid created a sort of barrier that the sun’s rays couldn’t break through, meaning they were reflected back out into space rather than warming the planet. That effectively stopped any heat from reaching the Earth’s surface, meaning the planet would slowly start to become one without a sun.

It was extremely dangerous and Mia knew that there was no way to stop it. Yellowstone had already erupted. The toxic gases and substances were in the air already, and there was no way to get them back. There were some people within the scientific community that Mia was aware of who had been looking forward to the next volcanic eruption, seeing it as a way to combat global warming. None of them could have expected something on this scale though. Mia had seen the papers and research into it—Yellowstone was probably about two hundred times the size of what they had been hoping for.

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