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The story: Scientists estimate that the magma chamber below Yellowstone National Park will become active anywhere between the year 2012 and 100,000 years from now. The question is not if, but when it will happen. June 27, 2013 the inevitable happened. The magma chamber began moving, causing earthquakes increasing in magnitude with every event. The gyser, Old Faithful, stopped erupting. The area around the park fell deathly silent as all the animals had left.

Ignoring the government's warnings to evacuate, this man, his wife and daugheter stayed in their home. As a strange vibration and rumbling sound grew, passing through the house, he and his daughter walked outside to see what was happening. Over the mountains, in the direction of the park, they saw huge plumes of ash and fire rising far above the horizon. The sky was all ready filling with ash and smoke. He froze, not believing what he was seeing. This simply can't happen. As his wife screams frantically for them to get back in the house, his daughter pulls on him trying to run back to safety, but he won't move. She let go of him, running to her mother's arms and they hide in the crawlspace under the house. She never saw her father again.

After the eruptions stopped, The girl's mother covered her with an old blanket and started trying to dig her way out of the crawlspace through the ash. As she dug, the ash she inhaled turned to sludge in her lungs. When she reached the surface, she simply collapsed.

Following a tip from friends of the family, a group from the Army Corps of Engineers began inspecting the neighborhood, looking for any survivors or anything that could be used to help the refugees. They came across a house that had partially collapsed under the weight of the ash and heard faint crying coming from inside. When they entered the house, they found the girl with her head wrapped in a blanket, huddled over her mother's lifeless body.

This event changed the world for everybody and every thing. But for one little girl, the world had just ended.