It was the year 2100 and John was cold, cold to the bone, but that was all he'd ever known. Had the sky not been full of low cloud he would have seen the Atlantic Ocean below him to the east and not so far away. Not so long ago the ocean would have been a distant view, but the ice melt had raised the ocean levels worldwide. He had moved to the Appalachian Hills in South Carolina, two years earlier. Together with his family, he lived within a small community of fellow survivors that had moved south firstly from New York and more recently from North Carolina. They had been forced to keep moving south due to the plunging temperatures and it now seemed that they would soon need to move again! Whilst their first year in South Carolina had been a marked improvement, during this the second year, the temperatures had begun to plummet, just as they had in North Carolina.
