Can You Survive a Global Blackout? by Matt Doeden

Author:Matt Doeden [Doeden, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: You Choose; Juvenile Nonfiction; JUV059000; dystopia; global blackout; armagedon; 9781474707053; 9781474707107; 9781491458501; 9781491459232; 9781491459355; 9781491478745
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2015-07-09T00:00:00+00:00

Not now though. You’re so tired, so cold. And who knows if there are still people around? No, you just lay back down and close your eyes.

It’s a bitterly cold night. The temperature inside the cabin plummets. You fall asleep shivering violently. You do not wake up.

THE END

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No distractions. You leave the truck behind and continue on your way. Your stomach growls, but you know that a person can go days without food.

It’s mid afternoon when you finally reach town. At the university, a crowd is gathered on the main lawn. All eyes are on a woman who appears to be giving a demonstration. She’s wrapping bandages on a young man whom you imagine is a college student.

“What’s going on?” you ask an elderly man standing in the back.

“Nursing professor,” he whispers. “This is the first aid seminar.”

The two of you speak quietly. It turns out that the university staff is doing what it can to help people get through this crisis. The nursing department is showing people how to treat simple injuries and illnesses. The engineering department is teaching citizens how to build things such as water wheels and windmills. The school’s wrestling coach is even giving a seminar in self defense.

“Do they know what’s going on? Why this is happening?”

The man gives you a long look. “Let’s walk,” he says.

The man, you learn, is Dr. Watkins, the chair of the university’s physics department. He talks as he leads you to his office, a small, cramped room lined with bookshelves. “There are a hundred theories,” he tells you. “Most people here are convinced it was some sort of massive solar flare or supernova. But I don’t buy it. Neither event explains it.”

He pulls a slender volume from the top drawer of his desk and opens it to an earmarked page. “This is a journal of physics. It describes an experiment at a European supercollider. Basically, a team of physicists was trying to discover the universe’s most elementary particle. The building block of everything—energy, matter, gravity—the whole she-bang.”

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