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    Snow

    By R. Blair Sands

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    Live along with the few who made it through the most extreme snowstorm in history. It started in New Hampshire with only a few flakes. Before it ended, the whole world is covered and there were only a few remaining. You'll never look at snow the same way again. Could this be a prophetic literary work?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR. Blair Sands
    Release dateDec 1, 2012
    ISBN9781301141005
    Snow
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    R. Blair Sands

    I began my writing career in 1972, while in Thule, Greenland on assignment with Ford Aerospace. My first novel never made it into print because I considered it too bad to print. Hopefully, I improved along the way. Now I have more books that I did publish, and hope everyone likes. You can read 10 percent of any of my books on Smashwords.com and I invite you to peruse them. Thankfully, people who read the previews, usually buy the book. Hope that keeps up...Thanks everyone...

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      Book preview

      Snow - R. Blair Sands

      Snow

      By

      R. Blair Sands

      Copyrighted 1998 by Robert Santee

      Revision One 2000

      Revision Two 2013

      Revision Three 2012

      Smashwords Edition

      All Rights Reserved

      All the characters in this story have no existence outside the imagination of the author and have no relationship whatsoever to anyone bearing the same name or names.

      Prologue

      Wide spread alarm was rampant in the late 1980's when the Russian nuclear power plant in Chernobyl blew its top. It was an actual and real possibility of others breaking up and blowing and cause far reaching affects on the entire world. Of course, their fear was short lived. As soon as the media quit running the story as a headline, the world began looking toward more current headlines.

      However, more was involved in the story than had been told. This blast was far more damaging than our world leaders allowed us know about. The tremendous forces brought into play at Chernobyl caused a small tilt in the axial bearing of our planet. We weren’t sure of when we were going to see the effects of that shift.

      We were all aware that the Russian press had down played the perilous event. When caught red-handed in their lies, they would they let out small bits of information. A great deal of important information was never found out by the rest of the world. The whole affair was well hushed up. All the world power leaders knew what had happened. Yet, they kept the secret from the world. They kept it quiet because they had no idea what effect it was going to have on the entire global system.

      The suspected proof of this incident was global; weather changes. It was going to get unbearable; hot, cold or maybe constant rain, or, perhaps any other weather extreme. They weren't sure. It was not possible to gauge the ongoing effects of these chemicals.

      The chemicals would be subjected to cosmic particles, ultra-violet rays from the sun, and greenhouse effect temperatures. The effect of chemicals blown into the highest reaches of our atmosphere was a total unknown. The incident at Chernobyl would be considered small when compared to the final results.

      By the later part of the 1990's, we had been through several weather changes. It had spawned hotter summers, erratic winters, and odd weather events. We thought that the weather had settled down and would remain the same. What we didn't take into account was a final shift of the earth on its axis. It occurred as a result of the wobbling effect that was set up by the initial slight shift.

      All of the sudden, scientists were worried. Hasty astronomical calculations and measurements were taken to discover the amount of shift. The verdict was simple. Earth is in trouble.

      Snow

      By

      R. Blair Sands

      Chapter One

      September 11, 2013: 7:00 am.

      Whoosh - - - . The sound came from overhead. It was gone as soon as it came.

      Joannie looked with alarm at Sharon, What was that? Her mind became alert. She felt a sense of panic because of the sound. Joannie was prone to being afraid of the unknown, because of events that happened in her childhood. She had been in a snowstorm that had developed into an avalanche, coming down and smashing her house, killing her parents, and almost killing her. Somehow she had managed to get lucky enough to be in a small confined area, which somehow remained intact and wasn't demolished. It had taken three days before rescue personnel extracted her.

      She had been fearful from that time forward about anything unknown.

      I don't know Joannie, but it was loud, and it sounded big, whatever it was. Sharon's senses also became alive.

      I don't see anything out of the ordinary, Joannie said.

      It came from the west and moved toward the east. Whatever made the sound was moving fast and it must have been low because it was out of sight by the time we were able to respond by looking up, Sharon added. Also, it was impossible to see above the cloud cover.

      It was a dreary, grey morning sky. It reminded you of a winter sky, but it was past the summer heat but still too soon in the fall season for the arrival of snow. But now a large dark slate-grey cloudbank hung low over Southern New Hampshire autumn morning, yet looked bleak and there came a certain bracing in it.

      Children were climbing into school buses, their arms full of books and lunches and young ideas of what they would do. They were on their way back to school for a new week.

      Joannie and Sharon, along with some of the other younger children's mothers, waited with them at the bus stops.

      Some, still in their curlers, were conversing among themselves about weather, school, kids and other small talk. When the buses had left, the women began to wander back to their houses. Some of the more social ones got together for an enjoyable morning coffee, before starting their days.

      Others made their way home, to get ready to head off for the day’s work.

      Come on over for coffee, Joannie invited to Sharon. The conversation about the whooshing sound resurfaced several times, but, of course, soon died out because of a lack of information to keep it going. But it came up several times in the hour they spent drinking coffee, showing their uneasiness.

      Joannie called Bill, her husband, at work. He was located almost straight in line of direction with the path the sound had made. She dialed, smiling at Sharon, We'll see if Bill has heard it too.

      The phone rang four times before Bill came on the line, Bill's Auto Service.

      Hi honey, it's me.

      Oh, Hi baby. What 'cha up to keed?

      Well, Sharon and I heard a tremendous Whooshing sound go straight overhead, real low, while we were waiting with the kids for the bus. I was wondering if you had heard it too, since it sounded like it was going almost straight toward you.

      Yes, I heard something, but I was busy and didn't take time to think much about it. What was it anyway?

      I don't know. I was hoping you had heard it and have some idea.

      Well, guess not. I was too involved in a problem here to pay attention. Sorry.

      OK Hon, I'll let you go. See you later. She hung the phone up, looking at Sharon, He wasn't any help, except that he thought he heard something and that was about all he said.

      Everything about the morning seemed almost normal, but there also seemed to be that little something in the air you were unable to pin down, though it captured your attention. It bothered you somewhat but you weren’t able to figure out why you felt bothered. It gave you an almost ominous feeling that something was about to happen, although

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