Rapture in Reverse, Day 2

A Short Story in Serial

September 26, 2029

One full day of sailing. Our first stop is to deliver supplies in Tenerife and then it should take us another 3 to 4 days, depending on the weather. The Canary Islands, still an extension of Spain, were hit especially hard by the tsunamis.

I know, I haven’t explained the tsunamis, but I’m getting there.

Tsunamis / Loscotoff

Much of the population of the Canary Islands had been Roman Catholic when the rapture came and the islands themselves only lost about 20% of their people.

Then the tsunamis hit and killed another 60% or more of the population.

It has been six months since the tsunamis. There just aren’t enough people left to really have a good count, or to even find help. Those who survived did so because of their ability to get up Mount Teide. Other islands, such as Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, which are predominately at sea level, are just gone.

The tsunamis hit almost every country lining the Atlantic Ocean. The water levels had already risen from climate change and humanity had begun to move inward and upward on all the continents. Climate change ended up being a blessing in its own small way, moving people away from the water.

On March 30th of this year, Good Friday, there was an earthquake. It was felt almost everywhere in the world. Cities fell. No country was left untouched.

And then the tsunamis began.

They hit the northern parts of Brazil and the Caribbean, the full eastern coast of the United States, Newfoundland, Quebec to the tip of Greenland, down the European west coast from Ireland to Spain and Portugal, as well as the north-west coast of Africa.

Our focus had been on the revitalization of humanity, converting those left behind, and building back society. But having lost so many of the greatest Scientists and not committing to the maintenance of warning systems, many nations were caught by surprise and their communities were lost to the sea.

The quake came from deep in the Atlantic Ocean, specifically around the 35th parallel. We still had access to satellite information and a smaller military with their jets.

Somehow, in the vastness of the Atlantic, a new island had formed.

Well, not an island, exactly. More like a continent, perhaps? It sat directly along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.

You’d have thought that governments (what government? who is in charge?) would send scientists out immediately to better understand what had happened, but we didn’t have the scientific population anymore. And we were all dealing with the catastrophes of the earthquake and the tsunamis while still grieving those we had lost in the rapture.

We waited and helped as much as we could within our own communities, not knowing if more earthquakes would come.

Being that the island was newly formed, we assumed that there would be no people or animals. We assumed it was an empty rock in the middle of the Atlantic.

We could’t explore it anyway, no one had the manpower.

But there were people on that rock.

People, perhaps in need of help.

Certainly in need of God.

And that is why we are headed there now.

Tomorrow we arrive in Tenerife.

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