Tag: heat wave leads to apocalypse

Jonah woke up to the sound of a gunshot. He jolted upright and looked around. He was in the backseat of Jake’s truck, parked in a motel parking lot. Sam was sleeping next to him, and Rachel and Jake were in the SUV behind them. He grabbed his baseball bat and got out of the truck. He saw a man lying on the ground, bleeding from his chest. Another man was standing over him, holding a pistol.

A loud bang woke Jonah up the next morning. Startled, he leaped out of bed. He looked out the window and saw smoke rising from a nearby building. He heard sirens and screams. He ran to the living room, where Sam was already watching the news. “What’s going on?” he asked, his heart pounding. The reporter on the screen looked shaken. “We have breaking news of a massive explosion at a power plant in the city.

“It’s hotter than hell out there today,” Jonah muttered as he wiped the sweat from his brow. The thermometer outside his apartment had read 112 degrees when he left for work that morning. His coworker Dana nodded in agreement. “Yeah, this heat wave just won’t quit. And they’re saying this could be the new normal within a decade.” “Don’t remind me,” Jonah sighed. Ever since temperatures had started rising precipitously five years earlier, there had been ominous warnings that devastating climate change was imminent.