"So, to sum up, while the US may have salvaged itself, at its most chaotic moment, a meteorite literally smashed into the east coast causing a magnitude 9 minimum earthquake in the west coast?" Lind felt like he was hearing about a bad movie.
What were the odds that just the right size of disaster would strike to not only take out the east but also the west at the same time? Sgt Keel had no problem answering it but it made him feel hollow.
The midwest was not spared as obviously such tectonic shifts literally shook the whole of the nation. Suffered as essentially 2 underground shockwaves collided, the buildings in the heart of the former country were never designed to withstand such things.
Airplanes had to quickly find clear areas to land if they were not knocked out of the sky by the shockwaves created by the falling rock.
Little was left of what happened immediately after but obviously they had far less land to use and way too many to feed. It was bad.
