It IS a depressing book. But the ending isn’t all that bad considering how it could have turned out. The antagonists are not dissimilar than those in ‘One Second After’.
I spent a while trying to figure out how far inland a 1500ft tsunami in the GOM would actually go.
Alright then, I don’t want a spoiler but the hint of a better ending helps. If you want to read a real depressing book that is not fiction, I suggest “The Black Book of Communism”. It’s highly peer-reviewed and riddled with ugly details. I’m forcing myself to read it but I don’t want to.
I spent a while trying to figure out how far inland a 1500ft tsunami in the GOM would actually go.
It would go up the Colorado river and create *another* sea in the Hill Country... but probably also splash North past Waco.
Some of the geological papers have suggested the tsunami from the Dinosaur killer made it as far upstream in the Mississippi River Valley as Southern Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri or higher. Along the gulf Coast it supposedly went inland into the lower halves of the states.