The snow began on a Saturday, a cold brooding day in September 2203. The world's leading scientists, grimly aware of the monstrous new age of ice that would close around Earth and bury the human race, had issued their warnings.
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But governments had ignored them, issued bland reassurances and berated that scientists for their alarmist cries of doom.
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For several years, though the snows started and stopped, the winters grew longer and the days colder. Then one day the snow started, and did not stop!
