Ontario’s Wiarton Willie, Nova Scotia’s Shubenacadie Sam and Quebec’s Fred la marmotte emerged just after 8 a.m. local time popped their heads out into the bright Canadian morning light and saw no shadow. Early Spring!
In the US, PunxsutawneyPhil refused to come out. He did, however, issue a press release noting that the pre-apocalyptic darkness that has settled over his country makes it impossible to even know when day has begun and predicts four years of gloom.
Expected soon is a tweet from Donald Trump dismissing the Canadian groundhogs as fake loser rodents and threatening to “go nuclear” on Phil, a Democratic operative, if he doesn’t stop boycotting the event.
