Tuesday, October 27, 2009

global warming

it's funny in a twisted kinda way, but i think i have my next science fair project. you know how the scientists are always debating the green house effect and global warming and climate change and all that happy crappy? well, we have the perfect test model for it right here in chester's mill, maine, us of a. the force field is just like our very own private ozone layer. it's not solid (i think i said that before.) some air and water can get in and out, but not much more. the prestile stream is starting to run low. another day or two and it won't be anything more than a mudslick.

this force field is messing with the weather. of course, it can't rain or snow, and there's no wind to speak of. but it's also getting warmer. we're eleven degrees warmer than castle rock. we're usually exactly the same. people are starting to worry about what's going to happen when heating season starts in mid-november. people are mostly burning propane now, which is okay, i guess, but some people want to start fires in their wood stoves, and that means ash and smoke, and that stuff isn't going through the dome. this ex-military guy who works at sweetbriar rose did a puff test. air goes through, but nothing in the air.

so far, everyone's supplies seem to be holding up. a few things are running low. milk, for example. my mom says there's plenty of powdered milk. guess that comes from powdered cows? mooo. maybe my homies and i will have to raid dinsmore's farm to get some fresh from the tap!!

looks like miz shumway's going back to press with another special edition. she says this is the first time since the prestile flooded in '03 that she's done extra editions, and now there's two. a-may-zing.

9 comments:

  1. What's going to happen if this dome doesn't disappear anytime soon? Is the town working on a plan to try to get supplies or a plan when supplies start running low?

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  2. i think the selectmen (do you call it a selectlady if one of them is a girl?) are meeting, but of course no one tells us kids anything. we have this guy named barbie (no kidding!) who used to be in the military. he seems to know his sh--.

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  3. Are you guys getting natural gas, or water, or anything else that comes from an outside source?

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  4. a lot of our water comes from wells, and that seems okay. the town has he-yuge supplies of propane, so that's cool, too. plus everyone has generators and gas tanks and camping gas and all that stuff.

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  5. I wonder if someone could hook up a generator to that force field thing, and short it out or something...lol

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  6. I guess get Uncle Chuck a job right now is out of the question.

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  7. not at all. chuck was in town when this happened. i hear the cmpd is still hiring because there were some cops away from town when this dome thing happened and they can't get back.

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  8. Can you try digging underneath the dome? Maybe it only goes so far into the ground?

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  9. some doods on the outside tried that a couple of weeks ago. it goes a long, long way down.

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