Status Updates From Eruption

Despite constantly claiming that they won't be able to do this whole thing without Mac, the military really keep pulling him away from his work to show instead of tell him about problems he can't do anything about.

I know I'm only a few pages in, but so far I'm very interested

“So the question is, what do we do in the hours we have left (before the eruption) other than wait?” Is not a sentence I want to read when I am in the last 50 pages of a disaster book.