Ellen is delivering," states one of her many billboards scattered up and down the country.
Their remains lie, for the most part, where the Japanese dumped them: scattered up and down the railway line that is still partly in use today.
The sea — deep, blue, freighted with long Pacific swells, terrifying with southeasterly storms in winter and rightly regarded as the graveyard for the three centuries' worth of ships whose wrecks are scattered up and down the chain of islands off the coast — dominates life in town.
Well, the debris left scattered up the entire West Coast of North America in this novel is as frightening and spectacular as any he's ever dropped on his readers -- wasted people, bears, goats, wolverines, dogs, a horse, bulldozed houses and wrecked rolling and flying machines.
Siding was scattered up to 50 yards away, and bits of fiberglass insulation draped on a fence.
Investigators found some very light debris including paper and nylon scattered up to eight miles (13 km) from the impact point in New Baltimore, Pennsylvania.
One mobile home was picked up, bounced a couple times, and thrown into a tree line, where it was torn apart and debris was scattered up to a mile away, including the frame.
