Carl was nearly paralyzed with terror for a moment as the freefall continued, but eventually his brain thawed enough that he realized that something was seriously wrong.  Aerodynamics weren't his specialty, but elementary physics were apparently being violated at the moment, as the minutes flowed by, and still no impact.  Questions began circling his mind, and just as he was about to voice more curses, his downward journey came to an end.<br/><br/>After recovering from the shock of the cubicle actually coming to a stop, Carl slowly unwound himself from the mattresses and blankets, confirming that he had nothing worse than some fairly serious bruises in some places.    He began hearing some voices outside after a while, so he filled his pockets with all the MREs and water he could find in the cubicle, checked that he had the MOBA and his lucky multitool, then began working the door.  It took some grunting, followed by curses, but eventually he managed to pry, kick and ram the door enough to get outside.<br/><br/>The situation outside the cubicle was not at all more comfortable.  He briefly noted the people that were also milling outside, mainly military types like him from their movements, but others too.  All that was eclipsed by the seriously freaky weather, though.  Even if it was the Antarctic, he was familiar with snow, and this didn't really look normal at all.  That weird glow wasn't helping either.<br/><br/>Eventually, he tired of fruitlessly analyzing the situation without more data, and jogged over to the others near some of the cubicles.  He kept himself alert in this unknown situation, and sized each man and woman up in a threat analysis as he neared them.  After getting there he stopped for a moment and gave his name after looking at all the others.<br/><br/>"Sergeant First Class Carl Edelfelt, what have we got thus far?  After we've verified the number of survivors, we should probably pool our knowledge and equipment.  We won't last long out here in this weather, so we need to get moving after securing this site."