text: The snow is cold and even the very light breeze feels extremely cold as you stand outside the car. The snow is deep and even your own tracks are quickly covered by the falling snow and the gentle breeze. It is cold out here and you need to find warmth and maybe shelter and then perhaps food.
  
  Looking towards the front of the car, you can see shadows and an area that looks a bit darker, like it might be trees or a forest. Over to the right side of the car is open space that looks just plain white and white. In the distance there are light shadows. Perhaps that is the road? To the left side of the car you can see a much lighter area. This might be where the sun is trying to burn through the thick, grey clouds. Behind the car is more white and white space. You are wondering if you are already starting to go snow blind.
  
  > head behind the car to explore.
  You step over behind the car and look around. There is snow here. It is also snowing here. It is cold as well. This is not looking good for you. You look over at the rear of the car and wonder what it takes to make a car explode. You think that if the car explodes, it will probably burn for a good while, and that should not only generate quite a bit of heat to warm you up, but might also work as a signal that you need help. Then again, you're not really sure how to blow up a car anyway, so you better find something else to do.
  
  The trunk is locked. You need the keys to open the trunk. You feel like you just had your keys when you were in the car, but you don't seem to have them now. They might be in the snow, but do you really want to reach your hands down into the snow now? They are already cold and that's just going to make them even colder. There's probably not anything useful in the trunk, anyway.
  
  > head into the open space behind the car.
  You head out into the area behind the car. It is white and cold here, too. You are already sick of the cold and the snow. You just wish it would stop and be warm. You ponder for a minute how far away the nearest warm beach is to these mountains and wonder if you can walk there from here...in the next 5 minutes. You can't, so you have to decide if you want to continue into this whiteness or head back to the car.
  
  It does seem like just maybe the snow has let up just a little bit here. You can still see the car from here, and the ground here seems kind of flat and open. This might be the road, but you're not really sure which way is the way to civilization. A wrong choice here could put you lost in the mountains forever, but a right choice could lead you to people and warmth.
  
  > go in the direction that looks like it might be "down."
  You trudge your way in what you think is "down." Hopefully this will lead you to, well, you're not really sure what. But it is better than standing around, or sitting in the car, waiting to freeze to death. At least that's what you keep telling yourself as you push through the snow that is almost knee-deep at this time and still coming down.
  
  You are pretty sure that you're still on what might be the road. At least you can see a flat area that you're walking on, and it feels flat under your feet. You don't trip over any rocks or anything, so that's a good sign. You can also just barely see off to the sides of the flat area something that look like dips or ditches, so you figure you're still on the road. You wonder if there are other cars buried in the snow in those ditches. You'd really like to go check because maybe someone left a jacket or some food in them, but you are really getting cold now. Your feet are feeling wet, but you almost don't mind as you're starting to lose a bit of feeling in your left foot.
  
  As you are plowing along, suddenly you see something that looks like it might be a flashing light ahead. In the sea that is nothing but white, you think you saw some orange. You stop walking and stare and sure enough, a moment later you see it again! There is something out there that's not white!
  
  You move slowly now, trying to move towards the orange. You see it again and you think that it might be the flashing orange light that emergency vehicles have on the top! You do notice that the flashing light seems to be awful high up, but maybe that's just because you can't really tell where the road ends and where the sky begins. As the light gets closer, you start to realize that you can hear a rather large engine! Yes, you are sure that's a big diesel engine running there, headed in your direction!
  
  > stay in the road and wave down the emergency vehicle!
  Breaking news out of the north pass...
  
  We have a report coming from the Sheriff's department in the western mountain county. The Sheriff is reporting that there was a horrible accident in the high passes on route 442. One of the county's large snowplows was working on clearing the massive amounts of snow from last night's storm and apparently a person was in the middle of the road. The plow driver could not see the person in the snow and the plow ran into the person, killing them instantly.
  
  The name of the person is being withheld pending notification of the next of kin.
  
  We here at channel 67 news want to remind people to not go out when extreme snow is forecast. Please stay at home when there are extreme weather alerts. If you have to go out, be sure that people know when you are leaving and where you are going so you can avoid the fate of this person.
  
  Bad Ending #8