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Feb 2, 2016

Ground Zero Day

            Excitement abounds in Punxatawney Pennsylvania as everyone wait for Phil to pop out of the ground.  After a moment too long he emerges, but before he can see his own shadow, a massive shadow engulfs everyone.  Tourists follow the groundhog as he hauls ass away from the site where a massive comet is casting its shadow on the Earth.  A few people who got out early escape the immediate blast as the meteor creates a gopher-hole of destruction a hundred miles across.
            Almost as bad as the initial damage, is the massive cloud of dust that the rock kicks up into the air, enveloping hundreds of miles around in darkness and ensuring that winter will definitely last longer this season.  A few of the escapees of the blast sight insist on going back to see if they can find any survivors and make their way over the ridge at the perimeter of the blast, and down into the chaos that was once Pennsylvania.

            Now these survivors must make their way back towards the center of the disaster contending with treacherous terrain, overwhelming cold, and animals that are upset not only by the climate, but also by the destruction of their homes.  This will certainly be a day that these people hope never to repeat again.

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