h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I had another doozy of a dream. This time, the outcome was not so good...

I saw the president standing behind a desk.
He was addressing a speaker phone in front of him.
“You’ve got to stop it!” he said, not shouting, but I could hear the desperation in his voice.

I saw a young woman wearing a blue short sleeve dress that came to her knees. Maybe twenty. Black shoulder length hair, very curly.
She was facing away from me.

“I can’t, Daddy!” she sobbed, and turned towards me. She had a screw driver in her hands, and tears running down her cheeks. There was electronic equipment next to her. She slumped into the corner where she stood and slowly slid down the wall to the floor.

I saw a huge rocket, screaming directly downward towards the earth. Long, and green, with a needle-sharp point. Under full power, the flames behind it were bright white, and a stream of black smoke laid the path it had followed. Because the nose was so pointed, the rocket disappeared into the earth at impact.

Then there was a massive thermonuclear explosion.

Far, far away, I was standing in a building. Maybe an office or hotel. People were running everywhere. Panic. Loading cars, running in the streets, trying to get away. “To where?” I thought. “It’s over. We’re toast”. I roamed the halls looking in rooms, and gave some advice to a girl I knew – “Stay inside, you’ll last longer”. She crossed the hall, entered a room and I never saw her again. The halls got emptier and it got quieter as people left. I met a few more people in the hall. I advised them to stay inside too. When the fallout comes, it will be dangerous to be in it. I wondered if the building would shield us much.

I found a bar in the building. A few people sat having a drink, watching the TV news about the panic. I sat down for a moment, then walked to the window when I saw some motion.

Outside, it looked like it was snowing hard, except it was a dingy grey, not white. There were no people in sight. The city was abandoned. I think it was like that everywhere.