Is Terral ELEnin?

[CrusaderFrank]

I suspect that Terral is a former CIA spook with a very strange sense of humor and probably laughing himself into fits at the people moving into limestone caves in the Ozarks because that's the safest place to be when Earth explodes on Dec 14, no Jan 8, no Feb 14, no March whenever.

Terral is ELEnin, now you're in on the joke.