Disasters by the DecadeAn interactive companion

The Control RoomYou are the emergency chief. The clock is real.

Disaster films cut to the general who makes the call in time. The record reads differently. Each scenario below replays a real day on its real clock: you see only what officials could see at each moment, you choose, and the clock advances along what actually happened — this game never invents an outcome. At the end, your choices stand beside theirs, and beside what the inquiry concluded.

Choose a day to hold the desk

The argument · six folders · draftThe Desk Officer's FileRead the desk officer's file: the argument behind these days, in six folders. The Last Mile essay, filed for reading at the desk, with a slip wherever a claim is one you can hold here.28 sources · about 11 min to readOpen the file
Board pending research2023-09-10 · dam failure / flash floodThe Night the Dams BrokeDerna, LibyaIn research — sources needed
Board pending research2013-11-08 · tropical cyclone / storm surgeStorm Surge WarningTacloban and Eastern Visayas, PhilippinesIn research — sources needed

Every desk plays three ways: Log, the reading version; Picture, the same record played out on the board, each slip stamped where it happened; and Diorama, the board's marks on a paper model of the real ground (public elevation data, relief exaggerated as marked; it needs WebGL). Switch with LOG · PICTURE · DIORAMA in the console strip, at any time, without losing your place.

Minutes are reading time: the words each day puts in front of you, at 200 a minute. Greyed scenarios exist only as schema: nothing appears here until every fact in them carries a source, and the build enforces it.