URGENT: Communique

I only have one more hour to get this message out before our power supply reaches a critical point.

Hello World,

My name is March Jericho, I am the technology officer and marijuana cultivar of the Harambe settlement.

This message is by way of location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, North America. Coordinates: Latitude 43.038902 Longitude -87.906471

If you receive this communication do make your way to this place.

I fear our electrical power supply is low and fatally damaged from a rogue and severe thunderstorm that was not pulled east over former Lake Michigan.

I will continue to make repairs but supplies are becoming scarce. Honestly, it has been five years since the fall. In my humble opinion, if you are here, you are here, at this point. However to you who this message might happen upon, you are certainly welcome to the civilization we have built from the rubble at any time this message befalls you.

Today’s date is July the 1st 2030 pre-fall time. The fall began and lasted for three years from 2022 until 2025; we have survived, sustained, and now thrive.

This is our final communication on the old channels, our broadcasts have been on radio, television frequencies, and the remaining internet applications since a year after the fall.

If you are reading this transmission please know I have sent this message by air, water and what remains on the old internet mainframes. We will now bury our dead with this message should we not survive until our next contact with outside sources.

What remains of our electricity and ability to generate power will be diverted and prioritized for more necessary functions within our greater community, if I can repair it at all.

We also forge this message as a testament to the history that passed to bring our once vibrant global society to a halt. We believe this is the last message we will send out to what now seems to be obsolete and desolate channels of communication among those survivors living on the earth after the fall, outside of this place.

The problems started before the fall, natural disasters both manmade and naturally cultivated began to plague the world after the start of the big war in 2001, the hurricanes tore at the coastlines, the tsunamis ripped lives from the shores and started a slow seeping nuclear fallout that would take years to notice globally, the weather changed, drought in wetlands, snow in deserts, mountains toppled, quaked gently by the mother herself, the oil pipes burst into the riverbeds, vocanoes oozed upon the land and seas, then the beasts of nature began to retake territory. The people ignored these happenings in favor of technology, material lust, and the dramatics of life. Many of the people missed their opportunities to prepare for the coming fall.

When the last war rose again in Palestine, civil wars broke out on every single continent as a result. People were persecuted for religion, race, sexuality and gender. Politicos fled with the reserves of their countries and over the course of 12 months people just stopped going to work. The most essential people were missing by droves daily. There was no remaining overlord to push the infrastructure or reward those sacrificial workers that remained. When the auto pilot systems on sewage treatment, water treatment, and the main electrical grid went down for the last times more and more fled their homes, the entire city devolved into chaos for some time.

To be honest, my faith had been lost in humanity since 2001. I had stockpiled goods for a fall I did not know would come in my lifetime. I boarded most windows in my home and marked them for dead by disease in the moments before militias came to raid my neighborhood. I speak for most survivors currently living in the Harambe Settlement when I say the founding members of this community intricately and intelligently hid while our world crumbled around us. We re-emerged on our own time and in a timely manner for the growth of the developing settlement.

In 2027 Eziekiel Fischer re-emerged from the University. He had taken refuge in a history building that had a cafeteria. When the last main electrical outage occurred he came to the river. He had spent his time reading everything he could find in his refuge. That was when he realized our true downfall had occurred over the last 100 years one historical timebomb at a time.

Eziekiel ran into several of our fishermen and foragers at the river when he ventured out. We welcomed him into our community and gave him the opportunity to write the accords of time that had brought about our new world.

Thanks to Eziekiel the citizens of the settlement now do not identify as people of any specific nationality, spirituality, sexuality or political orientation. We identify as survivors of the fall.

Due to Eziekiel’s diligence we are teaching our youth not only our storied and sad history but also the hope that our future generations will finally break the cycles of war that have ravaged our species since the dawn of our civilizations.

Eziekiel died of septicemia last week he will be buried with a time capsule containing this message, the heart shaped locket of his fiance who was stranded in Nova Scotia in 2024 without word, as well as the directions to his library and a few other cherished possessions. It is the hope that with this last transmission we welcome new survivors into our small city, as well as finally reach Harriet Bouvier who is believed to be alive in Nova Scotia. Eziekiel built something for you here in Milwaukee. There is life and safe haven for you to come to here, along the fresh water coast.

We believe Eziekiel’s spirit was the cause of the massive storm that took out our power generation set up; in honor of his life we send this last S.O.S.

If and when we are able to broadcast again we will be in touch. May this message meet you well. We have hope you are able to come join our settlement should you need to take refuge.

-March Jericho:

Technology Officer, Marijuana Cultivar;

The Harambe Settlement, Former Lake Michigan, East Facing Coast, New Earth.

07.01.2030