The Doomsday Clock hangs on a wall in the University of Chicago where the hour hand sits as 12 o’clock. The minute hand has only changed nineteen times, inching closer towards midnight – the countdown to global catastrophe and human extinction.
They are buying up food, flashlights, blankets, tents, weapons, ammunition, tools, and storage kits and bracing to sell off their 401Ks and flee their homes. Retailers across Utah say sales have shot up five-fold as hordes of Mormons, convinced the end of the world is neigh, are buying up their goods as fast as retailers…