October 28!? We need to slow it down by three days. I was born Halloween of '52, and adjust for the dateline, almost to the minute of the first thermonuclear test bomb. Came in with a bang, might as well go out with one. Save me the trouble of setting up the polling place in Nov.
What the article describes doesn't sound like the end of the world, or even enough to wipe out a whole city, despite the "giant comet" sensationalism. It would be a regional catastrophe. Unless you were very near the impact site, all you'd likely experience would be a very bleary month or two with a weak sun and a reddish moon, then really vivid sunsets for a year or more, and unusually cool winters for several more years after that. Assuming there is only the one, and not another "string of pearls."