When Homeland Security mobilizes Los Angeles County, fire captain Nick Carter and his fiancée, Cindi Burns, an ATF Special Agent, find themselves working together to stop the terrorists. As the crisis unfolds, California's contentious history of water wars is laid bare and Nick confronts a 40-year-old mystery from his childhood. From the actual Sylmar CA tunnel disaster of 1971 to a modern-day terrorist attack on Southern California's water supply. Tunnel Visions, a work of "faction," blends fact and fiction, weaving together the historical facts of the Sylmar disaster, the current struggle for control over California's diminishing water supply, and a fictional plot to attack Los Angeles' water distribution system.