Hi there,

these are very good thoughts, Witch_Dochtor, you raise there.

About the 'pockets'. Considering the time that the contact with the East Coast broke, it is pretty likely that the major spreading over the whole of the USA took place during the first two days, but it 'remained' within the reach of the metropols and giant cities; from there things spread into the thinner populated areas.

Everything you say about the bottlenecks and the flight I would not want to challenge, because the logic behind what you say is strikling. But you forget one major source of travelling: the train. Imagine a train full with people trying to flee a city for another city ... And at least one or two zeehs were able to catch on the train. This would be mayhem nd panic extra-large ... For whatever reason the train does not stop between the cities, but it rushes right into any bigger city and is just stopped accidentally by hitting another train or dead-end; this would release some of the zeehs from the train, and they could go on with their rampage in a new town.

Also we should not forget: We had several hotspots, not just one. With multiple hotspots in the USA - as I understood it from the various sources on the WA-show these were all around the USA - the spreading is actually without a single direction - it is like watering a huge garden from different directions; this works much faster then with just one garden hose ...

Still: not even two days for the complete area of the USA - roughly spoken-, and about a week when things started to collapse big-time.

All the best!
Liam