Great story! Too bad I live in California…

Love it. Makes me want to listen to some Tool. This has that same irreverence and welcoming (as the song) of what should be a tragedy.

I like the twist in the tragedy. An eternal optimist eh?

A Los Angeles Atlantis in the pacific. Imagine visiting that place. wow. Cool spin ending.

YAY! PHOENIX FTW!!!!

Yeah, I lived there or something… Anyway, I liked the story, and found it to be a great representation of a national disaster with that wonderful little last comment. I actually loved this.

Sounds like someone doesn’t like California. Nice job on the dead pan telling throughout without being dry then a funny little ending.

I love California.

This piece is part of a challenge to use the mood, lyrics and theme of a song to create a Ficly. Anyone familiar with the Tool song Ænema will recognize some of the phrasing and the overall theme.

Thank you all for the kind comments. THX, my original intention was to start it as a newspaper article, but I ran out of room to put that context in, but left the tone.

The last line is what I would imagine Maynard James Keenan (lead singer of Tool, and writer of the lyrics for the song) would say if he read the article. He lives in Jerome Arizona, but I thought Phoenix would be more recognizable.

And Ben, virtually everything makes me want to listen to Tool.

You should check out “Lucifer’s Hammer.” It’s an older science fiction novel about a big assed comet slamming into the Earth. Really a fun read. There’s a scene where a surfer is riding a ginormous tsunami towards the beach, realizes he’s doomed, and decides to go out ‘in style.’

fantastique

That beach-front property will be short-lived. The aftermath is going to be brutal.