CHAPTER FORTY NINE
4:45 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
The Situation Room
The White House, Washington, DC
“What’s the update, Kurt?”
Most people had stayed in the Situation Room after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Aides were racing in and out, communicating with the outside world, receiving information from areas hit by flooding.
The news was mostly… good.
White House catering had brought sandwiches and soft drinks, which had been laid out on the conference table. Susan found her appetite had returned. That must be true of everyone. The long sandwich tray lay in a state of annihilation.
Kurt took a bite of roast beef on rye. “Amy?”
She referred to her tablet.
“Meteorological data shows that a now one-hundred-foot-high wave is crossing the Atlantic at very high speed, land eq
