This year’s story begins……
After decades of warning, it has finally happened, an 8.1 magnitude earth quake has struck the Los Angeles basin. Utility service has been disrupted including water, electricity, natural gas, and cell phones.
Food and gasoline are becoming scarce and selling at a premium, when they can be found. Civil unrest has erupted and bands of looters roam the streets as well as more organized gangs at all hours of the day. The decision is made to move to a safer place. Our escape is cut off to the north by buckled freeways and downed over-passes, and to the south by a leaking reactor at San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant. The decision is made to go east, to survive…