The rest of the world was suffering similar fates. Of course, as always, it had been relatively less harsh for those in the Alterra region.
After all, every territory within it was connected, either directly to Alterra, or to its associates.
This meant that they could take advantage of the system center to quickly pass news and instructions. For example, when the extreme cold was predicted, Althea simply had to send messages to the Lords of the allied and subsidiary territories.
Although only a couple of days before the actual event was given, everyone had been preparing for an extreme weather condition (whichever direction it went) for months, since it was something that always happened every one or two years.
Every territory had its respective tunnel systems, and every territory had stocked a little bit of insulating materials, which were bought from the Specialty Store batch by batch months prior to the actual disaster.
