A day after it started happening they figured out the why, but I am not sure it really made a difference. Every January the earth comes under its greatest gravity from the Sun, a status referred to as perihelion. This, the positioning of the moon, and a slight change in magma movement around the earth, has resulted in one of the greatest period of earthquakes ever recorded and touched off the Great Burning. Over ten super-volcanoes have emerged, including the Caldera of Yellowstone and Taupo Caldera in New Zealand. Over the next two months half of the atmosphere was blacked out and the difficulty truly began. For the past couple of years the sun disappears for 4 months at a time and the atmosphere becomes unbreathable. So...we go underground...we store food and recycle our air. We are connected to other communities of people in an area we refer to as Trader Town.  

After having gone under the surface 30 days ago, we have realized there is a problem with our CO2 filtering. We know the whole system is broken and our CO2 levels are already high. We need to trade to get a new filter and we need to do it now! It appears we may only have oxygen for the next 30 minutes or so… we have maybe a 30 minute supply of emergency oxygen available, but that is if we utilize that as well.  

Let’s see what is available through Trader Town and see if we can trade for some new CO2 scrubbers and do it quickly.