ending of chapter 1.

I was right be in a hurry. I had only ridden perhaps ten miles inland when I heard something. I came to the top of a rise facing back towards the coast. Down in the city, the forty-foot wall of water was crashing through the streets, making an ominous roaring and hissing sound. I was starting to tire of riding uphill with a heavy pack, so I rode slowly up a valley, and switch backed up one side. I sat there and camped for the night, unable to sleep. What could I do?

Chapter 1: The day the entire world shook.

My name is Matthias. I was a fairly ordinary 20 year-old Alaskan, until the asteroid hit. I'd better not get ahead of myself. The day was a fairly normal one for me.

I went to my fourth year course classes for the first time at Alaska Pacific University. I had started college when I was sixteen, as I'd always been bored with high school. I came back to my home in rural Anchorage. I had been living on my own since I started going to college, because I'd always loved Alaska, but my parents did not. They preferred to stay in their home in Eastern Washington, so we'd visit each other every few months.

I went out for my daily hike in the woods surrounding my small house, and came back inside at six thirty. I wanted to watch the news, because NASA scientists were going to have live video coverage of the Apophis asteroid as it flew past Earth. As I sat in my house, watching, fascinated, I noticed something was wrong. The satellites that were monitoring Apophis were supposed to have it moving across their field of view, not towards them. I jumped when I saw a government interruption pop up on the screen.
"WARNING - This is the emergency broadcast system. All american citizens on the west coast must evacuate due to tsunami threat, all citizens further inland must take shelter! The aseroid Apophis --" the screen went dead. The asteroid must have hit the satelites that were brodcasting television. It really sunk in when moments later I heard one of the old alarms going off in Anchorage. Someone had dusted off the old claxon system meant for warning in case of nuclear strike, and now it was blaring across the Anchorage area.

I hurried and threw together a pack with my hunting rifle, a few pounds of ammunition, a few pots and pans, some flints, a knife and hatchet, my warmest sleeping bag, a tent, and a few changes of warm and cold weather clothing. I jumped on my mountain bike and rode up into the mountains east of Anchorage. Suddenly I heard a loud crashing sound, and I fell of my bike, holding my ears shut. a second later, I felt a ripple, like a small earth quake running northwest underground. I got up, dusted myself of, and rode harder than I ever had before, trying to outrun the emminent tsunami.

Prolouge

The year is 2036, and NASA was dead wrong. The asteroid Apophis, meant to have no greater than a 1 in 45000 chance of striking earth, did. They had kept the true size of the asteroid hidden, so as to not cause panic and worldwide pandemonium. They claimed it wouldn't even cause a worldwide winter, and losses of life would be under 10 million. That was wrong too.

Apophis did hit the Earth, with a force, not equivlant to 800 mega-tons of tnt, but 1800.

And it killed not 10 million, but 5 billion.

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