[ And, luckily for someone whose story sounds insane, she has multiple people who can vouch for her. So she definitely sounds more confident in an outlandish tale than most people might be. ]

Right? Only the boring, goody-goody assholes went to Boulder. We had a buncha real smart people wind up with us, engineers and people with experience to run the dam. That's the reason the power kept up so good. Most places lost all their power and water service, but Las Vegas was still working. Even the food in the freezers was still good when people startin' arriving.

[ She snorts and smiles, rolling her eyes for a moment as if the question is entertainingly simple. ] Vegas, by a long shot. It was like bein' on top of the world.