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Just this morning, figuring that by this time the majority of the weak would have been killed, and the strong would have gone back to their homes to guard their newly-stolen stocks of food, I ventured out to document some of the carnage. But there was none. The fine people of Ohio seem to be weathering the weather just fine. They are out drinking in the bars, eating in the restaurants, working at their jobs, driving their cars, exercising -- it is so normal you’d think that millions of Ohioans hadn’t even read The Shadow’s article.

But, doomed people, don’t let the normalcy fool you. The temperature has dropped even more dramatically than The Shadow predicted -- today was wicked cold, and as I type the temperature is 27ºF. While it is expected to go back up after sunrise tomorrow, make no mistake about it -- things are changing rapidly. Because our society’s diet is largely based on pre-packaged processed foods, and because there are vast stores of greasy goodness, it will take a while to affect us. Unfortunately, animals are not so lucky.

While sadly plodding home from my unfulfilled mission, digicam in tow, I started thinking about the exploded mouse from The Shadow’s article, and the strange squirrel behavior he reported. I decided to take a look at the squirrels in my neck of the woods, and see whether they were behaving the same way. I hadn’t stopped to look for two seconds before I saw this:

This innocent little song bird, apparently starving to death because there is no bird seed in our Alien Winter, turned into a giant ravenous monster, and resorted to eating squirrels. Not even The Shadow could have predicted the day that we would see animals eat each other.