Dense clouds of ash block the sun’s rays, and the earth is thrown into a premature winter, further reducing the availability of crops and food supplies. When volcanoes begin erupting around the world, in places that have experienced this phenomenon before, things go from bad to worse. She becomes more optimistic about their chances of surviving when her older brother, Matt, manages to return home from college to be with the family.
Though Miranda believes her mom is overreacting and initially takes a myopic view of the catastrophe, she helps out however she can. Miranda’s mother also makes the wise decision to stockpile winter clothes, batteries, oil lamps, and flats of vegetable plants. In a mad dash, with fights breaking out all around them, Miranda and her family are able to pack their van with canned foods, bottled water and toiletries. Nesbitt, the group buys everything they can get their hands on at the supermarket. She gives her mother the jewelry and the photo albums she took from Mrs.Realizing that things will not return to normal anytime soon, people enter survival mode, including Miranda’s mother, Laura, who takes Miranda and her brother Jonny out of school to stockpile food and other basic necessities, in case things get worse. The second time, Miranda stays behind, and tells her mother the news. They return to the house and are able to get the provisions without being spotted. Nesbitt’s death and her wish that they should take whatever can be useful to them. She finds her brothers outside and tells them about Mrs. Nesbitt’s house will be looted before she can return to get the rest of the provisions. She is careful to make sure no one sees her with the provisions otherwise Mrs. Nesbitt’s well still has water, and she begins filling jugs to bring home with her. She finally goes to the kitchen and finds some bottled water.
She manages to find a Christmas present of old baseball cards for Jonny, and then sets about securing more things. She wants to start the kitchen, but it feels ghoulish to do that, so she starts with the attic. Nesbitt’s instructions and sets out on stripping the house of whatever her family can use.
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