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This massive wave will run up and over bluffs along the seashore, pouring water into low lands thought protected from the sea, which will then become an inland sea for a time. Those along these bluffs should anticipate water rushing inland from the sea to this extent, and to escape tidal bore be inland and seeking shelter out of the wind along the highest points, staying out of the ravines normally draining to the sea, as this is the course that inbound waves will take during the hour of the shift, and out of the ravines normally draining inland, as this is the course that the water will take to escape back into the sea.
During the hour of the shift, survivors
will find themselves in a terrifying position, with water rushing up
and over the bluffs, coursing through the ravines on its way inland
to pour back out via the inland rivers and marshes.
Thus, from experiencing a long day during the week of rotation stoppage, and roasting as though in mid-summer, the residents of Pernambuco will find cold descending steadily. Equate the degree of this deep chill to what those in Antarctic or the north Polar Circle today experience. Unless prepared to live in this environment, which these tropical folks will not be, they will freeze to death or die of exposure in short order.
This world map (in red) is overlaid with an antipodal map (in yellow) showing the antipodes of each point on the Earth's surface.
Moving toward the Andes, well out of the
lowlands which will become a large inland bay when the existing pole
melt, is the best plan. Such an extensive trip should not be left
until the last minute, when panic and distraction will encumber
travelers.
Those well inland, in lands well above
the backwash that the Amazon might experience during torrid rains
and sloshing seas, will find their climate more moderate, hardly
changing at all from what they experienced in the past. Sao Paulo
state in Brazil will be ideally located after the shift for a
continuing temperate climate and access to ocean fishing. But during
the hour of the shift, those who would survive are advised to go to
the highest points in the mountain ranges in the area. Our general
advice to be 100 miles inland and 200 feet above sea level does not
apply in areas destined to experience tidal bore.
Tidal bore, for those who have witnessed it, does not act as water is expected to act, as the water will climb when it has nowhere else to go, to release the pressure behind it. Water on the move likewise keeps moving, even above the pull of gravity. What this means is that those seeking shelter from the high winds in ravines will find a roiling wall of water coming up from the coast, which will engulf and drown them.
Even the high points close to the coast
will find water pouring over them. One must analyze the terrain,
finding those high points that will be well enough inland to have
the force of the water dissipating, and which have a drainage outlet
for the water that does find it’s way around the high point. In that
high winds, to the point of hurricane force, will likewise be
experienced during the hour of the shift, those who would survive
are advised to plan to be well anchored too.
Facing the place where new land will rise in the Atlantic Ocean, between the tips of South America and Africa, when the Antarctic plate tips to accommodate compression of plates in the Pacific during the hour of the shift, Argentina will find itself with a great deal of displaced water seeking its level.
The flood tide will assault the coastline, under the immense pressure that a large volume of water can produce, not a wave but a body of water at a high level, and thus taking some time to disburse. This water will press inland, not stopped by foothills or vast plains that might otherwise stop or slow a flood tide.
The volume of water seeking its level
will also cause speed of flow, where the water presses through
mountain passes or ravines, scouring clean any manmade structures
there. Used to the gentle flow of water flowing to the seas,
spreading outwards across fields during flood times, or the gentle
washing in and out of tides, man has little experience with the
force and power of an immense amount of water on the move.
In this regard, the Cordoba range is
less likely to be affected, being further away from the Continental
Divide. Afterwards, due to the new location along the equator, those
in Argentina will find their climate uniformly temperate, with
continued access to ocean fishing, which will be productive when
land crops fail.
Buenos Aires is blessed, today, with an ideal location along a rich seacoast at the mouth of a river, surrounded by rich farmland and with a backdrop of mountains only a day’s drive away. Much of this will remain the same after the shift, with the climate remaining much the same too. Why, then, would Buenos Aires not be an ideal location to ride out the shift and for the Aftertime? Rising and erratic waters will wash the coastline, well before the shift.
When the rotation stops, water will drift to the poles from the equator, and during the shift itself, we predict that new land, in fact a new continent, will rise between the lower part of South America and Africa, just north of Antarctica. This will displace a large amount of water that will rush up the shorelines in a direct path from this new continent’s rise.
Those along the coast or in ravines where tidal bore will occur will find this flood tide immense, as it will wash into the foothills of the mountains, crashing and surging. Those who would survive should retreat into the mountain, well into them, until the ocean tides are regular and not erratic, a period of several days after the shift.
Buenos Aires will likewise suffer when
the existing poles melt, within two years of the shift, rising the
sea level some 650-700 feet. This will inundate many areas around
Buenos Aires, as well as many residences, forcing survivors to crowd
into already crowded and starving situations. Tempers will flare,
resulting in ugly confrontations, with few surviving.
Chile rises high along the coast of South America, but it is precisely because of these steep cliffs that tidal waves will be unexpectedly large during the pole shift. The water will have nowhere to go, so the press of water behind the lip of the wave will press the water up along the cliffs.
This is short lived, lasting for a few hours only, but lasts long enough that valleys along the coast may find themselves flooded. The water in any given valley may be there not because the mountain barrier protecting the valley is low, but because the water has been forced inland at another weak further down along the coast, and once inland is moves about, finding its lowest level. Thus, the water may even appear to come from an inland direction.
For best results, where living along a
coastline where all the surrounding area gives the water no escape
but up, be several thousand feet high and wait a day or so before
returning to your homes. In this way your home may be flooded, but
you will not drown.
Peru rides high in the Andes, and will ride higher after the shift due to increasing subduction of plates under the current mountain building ridge. The elevation causes thin air, which many of its residents must already deal with, and as during the hour of the shift some of the Earth’s atmosphere gets stripped away temporarily, this may be may be increased to the point of suffocation in the high elevations.
Along the coastland, there is also danger of tidal bore, as water under pressure will climb up if it has nowhere else to go. Thus, inland valleys hold the best chance of survival during the shift itself. After the shift, Peru will find itself continuing with a temperate climate, stretched out along the new Equator, and proximity to ocean fishing which will be productive during the years after the shift due to the increased carbon dioxide in the air and resulting kelp growth.
The hardy natives of Peru, left alone in
the past by those who would plunder as the land is spare and the
living hard, will be survivors.
Ecuador rides the Andes and faces the Pacific Ocean. Between mountain building, which is sure to occur this shift as it has in the past when the Pacific shortens, and raging tides in the Pacific as it moves about during the week of rotation stoppage and the shift itself, the frightened residents will feel like they have no place to seek safety.
Tidal bore along the coasts during the hour of the pole shift should cause those interested in surviving to move inland and return to their coastal homes after that rocky hour. Active volcanoes, and those lying dormant now, will react to the squeeze by burping and spewing volcanic dust for many decades after the shift, blanketing the Andes to what will then be the west (now South) with the worst of the ash.
However, the coastline will remain much the same, as mountain building will rise the land to counter much of the effect of melting poles. Coastal cities now some hundreds of feet above the waves will find themselves still above water, in the main, and fishing in the fertile oceans will be a source of food in the Aftertime for survivors. The coast line will be key to survival in the gloomy decades after the shift, as outdoor gardens will not fare well but the oceans will be lush and fruitful.
The climate will remain much the same,
close to the new equator as it is now close to the old equator.
Those who would survive are advised to stay 100 miles, and
preferably 200 miles from any volcano likely to erupt, and to gauge
their path back to the coastline after the shift by the activity
ongoing.
Colombia will stand as the high ground that frantic survivors in Central America will scramble toward during the shift. As Panama is the point where water today flows between the Pacific and the Caribbean, this is bridge to safety that will wash out early during the hour of the shift.
However, any survivors clinging to floating material will wash up on Colombia’s shores, wanting rescue to be fed and housed. Thus, as with many other countries faring better, during the shift, than its neighbors, Colombia will find itself a hospital and refugee camp. From the Amazon basin, likewise, the press of populace seeking high ground will occur. As the Amazon floods during the two years following the shift, due to the melting of the existing poles, man and animal alike will be on the move.
Thus, the high grounds of Colombia will be an interesting place, with conflicts of all kinds abounding in the Aftertime. The drug wars, which often dominate the scene in Colombia, will become nonexistent, as the traffic cannot move. Colombia’s drug crop will be used, rather, to dull the horrific reality among those who seek this route.
As with all countries of the world, the
Aftertime will find the populace changing, gradually, to be more
Service-to-Other, with supplies shared among all, and a helpful
positive attitude replacing groups attempting to climb on top of one
another for power and prestige. This is a trend that takes many
decades to become evident, how-ever, so Colombia will continue to be
a country where guns rule, to some extent, for some time after the
shift.
In the highlands of Colombia, Bogotá is the site of constant struggle between groups vying for power. The elected government struggles with drug loads and rebels seeking the upper hand, and to add to the mix the US drug wars insert themselves, plying the locals with funds if they cooperates.
How will this change when the pole shift occurs?
Thus, Bogotá will switch hands,
repeatedly, with this or that war lord declaring themselves in
control of a country that could care less what occurs in Bogotá.
Venezuela and other South American countries bordering the Caribbean and Central America must take more avoiding volcanoes and seeking high land into consideration during the shift, as the Caribbean and Central America will crumble during the plate slamming that occurs during the shift, giving way so that water pressure will rush between the Atlantic and Pacific as through a sluice.
Rapidly disappearing Caribbean plates will create a sudden compression in water over those plates, which will have nowhere to go. When the Pacific shortens, the gap created by a crumbled Central America will allow a rush of water toward the Atlantic, the speed of the water intensified by the narrow sluice through which it runs.
Coastal countries bordering this
nightmare need to move well inland and into high ground, beyond the
normal recommendation of 100 miles inland and 200 feet above sea
level. The farther inland, the better, or the nightmare may be upon
you.
This water will not be a benign tide, a flood tide steadily rising such that those in its path can scramble into boats or seek floatation. It will not even be waves, approaching and crashing down upon them such that they can measure the height and run for the highlands. The force that fury and speed that water can move is measured by today’s memory, of flood waters emptying into the sea or water from fire hoses put under great pressure so as to reach great distances.
This is not the limit of what water can be subjected to. The speed and force of water is dependent upon the weight of water behind it, which seeks its level. In the case of the great differences between the Pacific and Atlantic, during the hour of the shift, this weight is immense.
Thus, coastlines that border this rush
of water will find it scouring as it passes, suddenly shooting up
into ravines with a tidal bore that will horrify those who thought
they had clamored high enough. Those who would survive along the
coastlines of Venezuela will not find survival there possible under
any means. Cities will be scoured clean, torn from their foundations
and carried into the cold waters of the Atlantic, and deposited
there. Death by drowning in the roiling waters inevitable.
Bolivia lies at the heart of the South American plate, thus is old rock not likely to shatter. This will be pushed higher in altitude during the shift, but not by much, and the latitude will not be much more distance from the new equator after the shift than before, so life will continue much the same for survivors.
The sun will rise in a different location, and the skies more cloudy due to volcanic dust, and this will puzzle the rustic folk living in the mountains. But lying above the low atmosphere where most of the volcanic dust will linger as it settles provides advantages, as there will be clear days on occasion.
Life will be harder, as everywhere, due
to less vegetation, but those used to living a simple life will find
ways to cope, unlike those in cities used to soft living. The rural
peoples of Bolivia will be survivors.
Guyana is high country, mountainous, and used to the torrential rainstorms that countries near the equator and near the ocean can receive on a regular basis. There are no active volcanoes nearby, the plate stable and unlikely to shatter. However, the very sharp ravines rising up into the mountains will present a danger during the shift itself.
Water in the Caribbean, which will first empty during rotation stoppage when the water rushes to the poles and then refill with a sloshing rush as it attempts to return to the new equator, will rush up into the ravines with a tidal bore that will astonish anyone seeking refuse from high winds in the ravines. After the shift, Guyana will find itself in a more temperate climate, with many tropical plants that require high sunlight intensity suffering.
Even in a lush country, temperate and with a peoples used to foraging, there will be a lack of food. Survivors from the cities, who can no longer import the foods they are accustomed to, will stumble about in the jungle, causing conflicts with native peoples and ultimately starving to death.
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