Man Made

As the event bears down on New York city, erasing everything man made from its path, the Event Network issues an extensive forward-looking document that admits (in the private government version) that it is now clear humanity is facing an imminent extinction event. . Governments around the world become more draconian in their preparation and post-event plans to control their populations. . Groups of zealots and faith healers gather along the Event Line in...
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As the event bears down on New York city, erasing everything man made from its path, the Event Network issues an extensive forward-looking document that admits (in the private government version) that it is now clear humanity is facing an imminent extinction event.
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Governments around the world become more draconian in their preparation and post-event plans to control their populations.
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Groups of zealots and faith healers gather along the Event Line in London, interfering with the scientific efforts to understand and mitigate the Event, and attacking each other leading to overwhelming police response.
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The United States Cabinet is charged with mounting the response and preparing for the interface. Continental communications systems are proposed and data preservation efforts shift into high gear with an unexpected opportunity.
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To the south, the largest city in the Amazon is struck, casting the entire population into world without clothes, shelter, food, or tools in the heart of the Brazilian rainforest.
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Meanwhile, the C-130 rescue plane makes its way along the west coast of the Antarctic peninsula and turns toward McMurdo on its way to Amundsen-Scott at the south pole.
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The Event makes landfall in the United States as its easternmost lighthouse, then races across New England as it is covered in a special television broadcast, The Event Arrives In America. Several states are wiped clean of anything manufactured, forest fires blaze uncontrolled, Long Island is purged, and New York is erased from Manhattan, along with all its history, culture, and facilities.