Multiply Katrina's civil horror and failed government on every coast and follow survivors escaping with their lives. Rumors of an impending global warming disaster from Antarctica drive a media frenzy, despite military censorship. Local disorder becomes chaos. Convicts break out of San Quentin. The ice collapses. Global panic ensues. Our characters flee the San Francisco area as Antarctic eruptions and tsunami follow. The East Coast is devastated. Sea level rises, crippling California's water system, and thirty million people are abandoned to die of thirst and warlordism. A new way of life begins at a mysterious homestead in a world changed forever.