Man Made: The Fourth Hour (The Event #5)

Description

While South America is ravaged, the Event Network runs a battery of tests in London with seemingly contradictory results. New experiments are proposed and put into motion, and philosophical considerations lead down rabit holes of conjecture.
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The internet becomes a clearing house for preparedness and survival information as the public at large contributes toward disaster mitigation.
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More than 150 million souls had already been displaced by the event, as it continues to sweep across Brazil, whose president left all 26 states on their own as he gathered military forces, food, and supplies to himself.
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The governor of Sao Paulo, Brazil's most populous state, makes hard choices recognizing "In order to save some, we must not try to save all "
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Efforts are bugn to prepare diversions of flood waters from dams that would soon vanish. Pipelines and pumping stations are bulldozed and replaced with ditches to ensure at least some degree of water provision.
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Meanwhile, the C-130 rescue plane takes on supplies at King George Island before continuing its spiraling journey to save the winter-over crew of scientists at Amundson-Scot station at the south pole, where facility buildings are already being erased by the slow-moving interface.