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The following text was re-typed from a damaged website belonging to the Pennsylvania Chorus, a newspaper operating out of the city of Lancaster. The information is complete enough for release, but I recieved a request from the Administrative Department to hold for approval to make it public. If you have any questions about this, you can reach me through mailbox H36, that's on the sixth level, under the name Maria Stokes.
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Amid Worsening Storms, Northern Latitudes Burrow
3/32/2097
With extreme cold and violent weather moving down from the arctic circle, communities around the world are looking to those furthest north, who will be the first to contend with these extreme conditions. The first government to declare a plan was Norway’s. Prime minister Haugen held a press conference Friday of last week to announce a plan to move much of the population underground. Excavation of shelters has already started, moving from north to south, prioritizing populations in the most immediate danger. In the interim before their completion, Haugen urged citizens to either move south or stay at home, as temperatures in Tromsø have already dropped to -10°F, cold enough to cause frostbite in less than half an hour with high winds, and shows signs of falling further in the next few weeks.
After Prime Minister Haugen’s announcement, other northern countries started to speak of similar plans. Word came from the kremlin on Monday that resources were being diverted to build insulative structures around necessary elements of infrastructure like power plants, cell towers, and water treatment facilities. Public Safety Canada put out a statement yesterday detailing the planned relocation of indigenous populations living above seventy degrees north, sparking controversy. One month earlier, teams working at research stations in the far north were evacuated, though no announcement was made on the subject at the time. President Wilhelm has yet to announce plans for any shelters, but has ordered ground broken on a project to lay fiber optic cables deep underground in a network connecting every major city in the country to ensure communication is possible even if the existing infrastructure is damaged. Each state will be saddled with the cost of any construction done within its borders. Naturally, Hawaii and Alaska have opted out of the plan.
Though as of yet only Norway has begun construction on any kind of government sanctioned underground shelter, thousands of people in the northern hemisphere have started building their own personal dens. Notable among them is trillionaire Tifawt Moqrane, who claims to be dedicating half of her wealth to build a shelter large enough not only for herself, but close to three thousand other people besides. Here in Lancaster, local man Miguel Caridad has plans of his own. “This whole f---- thing is crazy.” said Caridad. “But I figure we all gotta pitch in, right?” Caridad went on to explain that he hopes to use the new library sub-basement at Franklin and Marshall College to house the city’s itinerant and homeless population in case of dangerous temperatures. “Like, I figure we’ve got time. Couple months, hopefully, before it hits us. So we need to use the time to make sure that the folks without a place to stay don’t get turned into popsicles.” We reached out to Franklin and Marshall for comment, but have yet to receive a response.
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