The Sleeping Giant of Kansas

Previously

…The news, when it finally managed to trickle out through the fractured communication lines, was a grim litany of disaster. Cities were buried, towns were evacuated, and the agricultural heartland of America was choked into submission. The vast, fertile plains that fed a nation were becoming a desolate, ash-choked wasteland. The sleeping giant of Kansas was awake, and its slumber had been a deception. Its awakening was a nightmare, a slow, agonizing descent into darkness and chaos that showed no sign of abating. The eruption, the scientists now grimly predicted, would last for months. Eight months. A lifetime of ash. A lifetime of fear. The first eruption was just the beginning.