3:31am � The normally pleasant river was done being nice. It had risen way beyond normal capacity and the first wave tore through the town like a massive angry drunken bulldozer � destroying everything in its path. Everything we had worked for � our homes, our offices, our lives � was gone. The first wave had hit earlier and the damage had been done. The town was surrounded by some kind of a huge wall. There was a bridge which allowed water to go under the wall and it was clogged with debris. People stood up on top of it watching as the water and junk went underneath it. For some reason there was no way to get to the other side of the wall except to get in the water, hold your breath and be carried swiftly in the raging current under the bridge. There was a passageway that went down into the now destroyed section of the town. I went down the steps and into a waiting crowd who were watching people jump into the river. The were people on the bridge helping people as they went under the bridge. It was a weird kind of evacuation. I made my way down a long concrete corridor. My friends were there in a lobby area � singing in a choir � strangely enough. I walked past and found my old office. All my work had been destroyed in an instant and there was nothing i could do to bring any of it back. I found my ruined computer and for some reason pulled the hard drive and RAM out of it as if somehow I could bring it all back. I thought to myself, “this is stupid. Why would I come all the way over here for this stuff. It doesn’t even matter anymore.” So I left and walked back down the corridor. When I got back… no one was there and the massive steel door was closed. I could see that everyone else had gone through and I was the only one left. The second wave could be heard roaring in the distance.
