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Post by willc453 on Mar 3, 2022 19:10:34 GMT -6
In the beginning of The Layover, I wrote how a nuke was set off on the San Andreas fault near L.A. Just came across this Yahoo news article and the video that goes with it. How about a story with someone or a small group of people trying to survive "the big one" as it's called? No nukes, just one massive earthquake. As for me, I'd make sure there were some 2 legged wolves and rats people had to deal with. NO.....do NOT ask me to write it. I might give it a whack further down the road, but right now I'm working on a 4th Thor chapter. Yeah, I get to writing and kind of forget how long that chapter was. Like one was 7.5 pages?! news.yahoo.com/could-happen-tomorrow-experts-know-230027986.htmlwww.youtube.com/watch?v=aRLb3PmIYFc |
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Post by papaof2 on Mar 3, 2022 20:22:01 GMT -6
When/If Yellowstone goes up, how many faults will it trigger? Will all the California, Nevada, etc, etc, etc faults be triggered and California literally "fall off" the edge of the US? Would that "shake" also affect the New Madrid Fault - and a number of others? Mount St. Helens? Ranier? Alaska's coast - again? The Pacific "Ring of Fire"?
We're talking about the junction of two tectonic plates, so could a "big enough" jolt trigger enough earthquakes of large enough size to break a large part of California loose and create a new island to the west of the current West Coast?
There's enough in that to fill multiple books and it could have city people running to the farms in the hills outside the San Joaquin (and other) "breadbaskets". If you haven't read "Lucifer's Hammer" (Larry Niven and Jerry Pournell, 1991 or so), that book has lots of "Maybe this" and "Maybe that" of both planned and "sheer luck" methods of surviving an apocalypse - in the book, the "Hammer" is a comet, but Yellowstone erupting and that eruption causing multiple faults to let go are possible without the aid of a comet hitting the planet. The comet just gives some of the people a few hours warning before the apocalypse begins...
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Post by willc453 on Mar 4, 2022 2:51:08 GMT -6
Somewhere in my stash, got Lucifer's Hammer. Checked and Yellowstone Nati8nal Park says the odds of that volcano blowing is the same as being struck by lightning....1 in 10,000. Sometimes you think you come up with a good idea, but it was actually something your read and forgot about. In The Layover, Andy's checking out the library for telephone books to find out where stores that sell scuba gear are located and hopefully, retrieve whatever supplies the diver(s) can salvage. Didn't this also happen in Thor's Hammer?
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Post by papaof2 on Mar 4, 2022 12:07:43 GMT -6
There are multiple stories/books that use the telephone book(s) as a "treasure map". Much less useful these days with the very skinny, mostly-advertising-supported "Business Yellow Pages". That's a far cry from the 1980's Atlanta phone directories which we used as booster seats at the table for visiting kids ;-)
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