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Darkening Skies: Chs. 11&12 – Frozen!, Nicolae’s Bargain
WHEN Vicki awoke the next morning, she pulled the covers up under her chin. The air was chilly. She was used to the sunshine waking her between six-thirty and seven. Sometimes she pulled the covers over her head to sleep a little longer. She picked her watch up from the floor and turned it several times before she could see. It was after seven o’clock. Strange , Vicki thought, swinging her feet from under the covers and hitting the floor. She quickly jumped back into bed. The floor was icy.
No one was up yet, so Vicki went to the computer room to read Tsion’s Web site. The Internet seemed unusually slow. Vicki blew warm air into her hands and noticed she could see her breath. When a window popped on her screen with a news flash about the worldwide cold spell, Vicki finally realized what had happened. She called the others together. Slowly people made their way into the room.
Mark walked onto the balcony on the second floor to see the lack of sunlight, but he couldn’t stand to stay outside long. Vicki logged on to the local news. The report said a cold front had moved into Illinois in the middle of the night. Meteorologists and other weather experts tried to make sense of the situation, but all seemed stumped.
Janie shuffled into the room with a blanket draped around her. “Who turned down the heat? I’m freezing!”
“It’s the judgment we told you about,” Vicki said.
Janie looked at Vicki like she had two heads. “What are you talking about?”
Vicki picked up a Bible and read the passage that described the striking of the sun, moon, and stars.
“This means we need to get in gear,” Mark said. He and Conrad ran to start the generator.
Vicki, Darrion, and Shelly inspected the house and decided the upstairs would be too difficult to heat. “Too much cold air coming through those old windows,” Vicki said. “We’ll need to move everybody to the ground floor.”
“I don’t want to be cooped up down here,” Janie protested. Vicki remained firm.
Darkening Skies: Chs. 11&12 – Frozen!, Nicolae’s Bargain
Darkening Skies: Chs. 11&12 - Frozen!, Nicolae"s Bargain