![]() ![]() ![]() Wounded, he stumbles into the first farmyard along the road and is taken in by Mrs. He keeps moving east, encountering very few refugees, some even less-prepared than he is, one much more dangerous than anyone he ever wanted to meet. ![]() Driving to Warren takes an hour and a half – how long will it take now? Slogging through ever-deepening ash, running short of water and food, he avoids farmhouses where he can see rifle barrels glinting in the windows, tries to find shelter in this flat farmland it gets colder and colder. Then the ash begins to fall from the sky…and fall and fall and fall, clogging car engines, making it hard to breathe, getting into every crevice of his clothes.ĭetermined to get to his family, Alex gathers whatever food and gear he can, then heads east cross-country on Dad’s skis. Even 900 miles from the Yellowstone supervolcano, earthquakes throw houses around like kids’ blocks in their Iowa hometown. But those teen pleasures are gone now, like clear air and electricity and sunshine and phone service and clean water and trusting other people. ![]() It’s not like Alex was planning a wild party in his parents’ absence – just computer games and junk food on the menu. Alex wants to skip visiting his uncle’s goat farm, and his parents finally agree to let the 16-year-old stay home alone this time, on that September weekend when the whole world changed, when a supervolcano eruption rocked civilization to its core. ![]()
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