EARTH ABIDES and the Colorado flood. **SPOILERS** (for book, not flood).

[SheilaT]

1. As I recall, they do have to make a lot

of detours around washed-out roads. Keep in mind the book was written in 1949, and the interstate highway system didn't even exist then. I'm wondering if the roads of that era wouldn't have actually survived somewhat better.

Also, I recall that they searched for a while to find a battery that they could still use, and tires that hadn't completely deteriorated. Can't quite recall how they solved the problem of getting gas, which might really have been the biggest problem. Doesn't gas in some way deteriorate when simply left in storage for years at a time? Of course, back then it was all leaded gas, so I have no idea what difference that would have made.

The most amusing thing was probably the magic grocery store that they were still getting food, canned goods, from all those years later.

But yeah, it's a very good book, and if not the first one of the very first post-apocalypse novels.