Not Quite Apocalypse (but not at all impossible)
I was skimming around through my Unlimited Kindle reads and saw a book titled "My Cabin" by a fellow named Pete Thorsen. Took a chance and was very pleasantly surprised. Checked him out and he has a whole series of books built around the same premise, or close to it. Triggered by OUC's meme about grandma having a pie on and not wanting it to burn.
I think he writes mostly short stories in this genre so probably would spend, at most, two-four hours per read.
I found them on Kindle Unlimited so, if you are an habiitue of this milieu, you don't lose anything.