Schulz sketches the future to make us feel what we might if a tsunami struck: If it happens at night, the ensuing catastrophe will unfold in darkness…. Nonchalance will shatter instantly. So will everything made of glass…. Refrigerators will walk out of kitchens, unplugging themselves and toppling over…. Unmoored on the undulating ground, the homes will begin to collapse. The verbs are surreal, but the shock of them, the contrast, brings the inanimate to life. The switch to the future tense gives the coming disaster the kind of inevitability that her reporting, by this time, has established as
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