Yellowstone: 1978

Hello and welcome to the portal page for the Yellowstone: 1983 Althistory Timeline.

Background
During the hot summer of 1983, on July 15, 1983; the Yellowstone Caldera beneath Yellowstone National Park in the former state of Wyoming, USA erupted, immediately killing the entire population of immediate surrounding states.

States in the Western USA and provinces of Western Canada were sent into panic due to the sudden eruption, which occurred mid-day (PST). Hundreds of thousands of people died within the first few hours of the eruption, with an estimated one million dying within the following weeks and months. A massive cloud of dust and ash from the volcano was kicked up into the skies of North America, Atlantic Europe and South America. The cloud spread over the rest of the world as July 1983 dragged on. The ability for the Earth to be connected by telecommunications, and satellites was destroyed and for a period of about five years after the eruption, there was little to no communication between cities and town, especially in the Western world.

Individual towns and cities soon managed to set-up services such as electricity, plumbing, water, heating and even telephone connections within the decades after the eruption. It is estimated that due to the destruction of technology, much of Europe, Asia and Africa, as well as South American countries have been hit with famine, civil war, anarchy and mass starvation and death.

Much of the former Mid-west United States have been abandoned or their inhabitants died off. The most populated and thriving communities and successor states exist near the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America, as well as the Great Lakes zone, Mexico and Canada.

Directory
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North America

 * Alaska
 * Soviet Alaskan Socialist Republic
 * Victoria
 * Provisional Canada (Canadian Remainder Provinces)
 * California
 * Pacifican Democratic Republic
 * New Mexico
 * Mexican Empire
 * Sonora
 * Mexico
 * Florida
 * Ionia
 * Rome
 * Corinth
 * Florence
 * Provisional United States (American Remainder States)
 * United States of Central America
 * Canal Zone
 * Texas
 * South Texas
 * Lakota
 * Virginia
 * New York
 * Empire
 * New Jersey
 * Outerlands
 * Atlantic Empire
 * Detroit
 * New American Republic
 * Dakota
 * Superior
 * Thunder Bay
 * Collingwood
 * Simcoe
 * Toronto
 * Niagara Falls Zone
 * London
 * Waterloo
 * Erie Empire
 * Pelee Empire
 * Cobalt
 * Temiskaming
 * Canada
 * Maine
 * Vermont
 * Conneticut
 * Windsor Reggio Calabria
 * Norfolk-Haldimand