An East Coast Tsunami: Book 1 of 3 of Climate Change Series

By B. A. Mihalchick

Finding love amidst a volcano eruption, a tsunami and destruction of part of the US East Coast .

The book finds us following a Team of four people, building a tsunami buoy warning system, across the Atlantic Ocean, that they have to use.

Love is found for two of the Team members with each other, the Professor, a widower who decides to move on, from the memory a deceased wife and a sensual 30 year old female Team member, Sarah, who just wants a chance, with the man, she had loved, from a far.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669816072

B. A. Mihalchick

After leaving a successful career in IT Project Management, Barb found her love, of fictional writing. Barb is a prolific author. To her credit, she has written over eighteen of “The Adventures Of The Five Rabb Boys,” of the children’s book series. For adults, she has written over eight books, based on climate change, eg. “Who Stole Our Lake” and “It Just Fell.” She wrote four adult books, based on the CBS JAG tv show series, from 1995 to 2005. Starting with “The Other Path Taken.” The four books take the newly married couple through murder in the English countryside and then on to the Bahamas, for more murders. Murders seem to follow the couple around. Just look for David James Elliot, Actor and Producer’s picture, on the cover for these books. All books are, available worldwide, on Amazon and other Internet bookstores, including BarnesandNobles.com, Walmart.com, Google Books, Xlibris.com and Target.com, under B. A. Mihalchick.

Book preview

Chapter 1

A TSUNAMI FROM WHERE?

S enior Professor Dr. Roger Smith, PHD, of the US Seismic Institute, was located in the Washington, DC office. The Institute monitored volcanoes and earthquakes, in the United States and offshore, on a daily and hourly basis, including volcanoes like the Yellowstone Caldera and Mount Rainer.

The Institute had three offices, Washington DC (Eastern Region), Portland, Oregon (Western Region), and Kansas City, Kansas (Central Region).

The Professor, as he was known by, saw the next potential volcanic threat was from the Canary Islands, off the coast of Africa. The volcano of LaPaloma had been seeing mini eruptions, since 2017.

The lava cone had been building up, inside the volcano, a sign of a potential eruption.

If LaPaloma ever erupted fully, the East Coast from North Carolina up to the New England area, could experience a tsunami.

The Outer Barrier Islands, at only one foot, above sea level, off the coast of North Carolina, would be wiped out.

How high of a wave, he didn’t know. It could be two feet or 12 feet tall. A nuisance event to a life threatening one. A lot of water to wade through to a catastrophic event.

A one-story building is about 10 feet tall. A tsunami builds up height, as it travels, on the ocean bed floor, spreading itself out. It could be calm on the ocean’s surface.

The 2011 tsunami, in Japan, occurred at 2:45 pm and took six minutes to go across the land, at 520 mph, killing 20,000 people. 2,500 people were never found, probably sucked out to sea. A wave of 8 feet high, moved inland six miles. It destroyed over 45,000 buildings including a power plant.

The tsunami was created, by an earthquake 80 miles away, on the seabed floor. Two plates, on the ocean floor, had slipped. The Pacific plate had slipped under the Eurasian plate, causing the earthquake. A volcano would act the same way. It could release a tsunami, an ocean floor wave of water, hidden from view.

Sea walls, built by the Japanese government, did not help. The tsunami waters, just pushed them aside, out of the way. They were positioned incorrectly.

The earthquake had been felt, as far as Beijing, China, and the Aleutian Islands, off Alaska.

The Japanese coastal town of Tokoku, was destroyed, without warning. One-minute life was good, the next, all hell broke out. Run for your life but the tsunami was too fast for people, on foot. It even encompassed moving cars, trying to escape.

Chapter 2

CONGRESS

T he Professor was to give, a presentation, to the full US Congress, asking for funding, to place tsunami wave reporting buoys, to be spread out across, the Atlantic Ocean floor. They needed 62 million dollars, in funding. The project would allow for tsunami monitoring by buoy, an accurate method, to track a tsunami,