There was a storm on the way. A storm the likes of which I do not recall having seen before. It was big, it covered the horizon. Birds were fleeing the area, Eagles and Gulls in flights of fright from the storm on the horizon. It was going to be a storm of epic proportions.

The news was already being lost. It started with a few blackouts, from wind damage they said, trees blown over and bringing down the power lines. Then there were the reports out of Texas, they had lost most of their electric grid, they were in the dark, that was the last news we heard, before the power to our shelter went out.

Halloween, The Day of the Dead, would forever have a new meaning in the years to come. I don't know how I survived, how our little town survived, but survive we did. When the power went out and the night became silent except for the crash of cars, airplanes falling from the sky, and I am pretty sure at least one train head-on from inoperative lights and track switches. EMP people said, Russians did it, Chinese did, or Canada did it. How it happened everything just stopped.

Scientist, well astronomers at any rate, tried to warn of an impending Q-wave from the Pleiades Star cluster. The mainstream media just laughed at them. The astrogeologist tried to warn the people, few people listened. They told people to go underground to get in a cave to have at least three feet of dirt over them for protection. Stay in your basements, or underground garages, be somewhere to be protected from the wave.

Three days before Halloween, NASA let everyone know that there was a comet that would pass close to Earth on Halloween eve, that it would not be visible to the naked eye until it cleared the path of Jupiter, the day before Halloween. NASA and the government and the Media did a good job of soothing the frazzled nerves of the world.

Our town listened to the astronomers, we planed our celebration to be in the Weldone Caves. We survived, we listened. The meteor shower behind the comet was immense. We watched as hundreds fell to the Earth. We were lucky near us only small ones fell. Some fires started as buildings were hit, but they did not spread far. For six days the sky rained fire, yet we lived.

In search of a Halloween badge. From Hive account@steemitboard.