EARTH ABIDES and the Colorado flood. **SPOILERS** (for book, not flood).

[raccoon]

Seeing some of the footage about Colorado last night, seeing roads washed away and big, deep gullies, made me think, not for the first time, that, while I loved the book EARTH ABIDES, there is no way in the world the US and its roads and bridges infrastructure, could have lasted as long as 22 years after nearly everyone died off.

In the book, 22 years after the dieoff of maybe 90-something percent of the population, two young men make a cross-country trip across the US, from San Francisco as far as Toledo, OH. In a car that they were able to get to run again (Another thing that wouldn't happen, but it's still an entertaining story.).

I also think that fire would have destroyed a lot more, a lot sooner than happened in the book. JMHO.

I remember I read that book in 24 hours--couldn't put it down.