Northeastern Georgia (region — localized outage zone)

Wind-driven rain presses against empty roads as power lines sag and fall, plunging neighborhoods into black. Phones stutter, radio traffic thins, and elderly households risk becoming unreachable — a region defined here by outage, isolation, and the blunt, mechanical arrival of Hurricane Sarah. The landscape tastes of salt and wet earth, punctuated by the smell of wet insulation and the distant groan of emergency vehicles. For the characters, Northeastern Georgia functions as a human-scale crisis: an area where family members vanish from contact, communications collapse, and political staff must pivot from ceremony to life-saving logistics and frantic calls to FEMA.