As he drove down the long stretch of road toward the military base in the distance he wondered if the clipboard had the reason he was on the base in the middle of the Nevada desert.
He had been called here by a colleague in the middle of the night and told her that he wasn’t available until the following week.
His colleague, Dr. Jane Newton, told him this project deserved clearing his schedule and getting out to the desert immediately. So he did.
“Trust me, Henry, this is worth it,” she told him.
So far it wasn’t. He arrived in Jostlin, Nevada during a freak rainstorm. The clerk at the hotel told Henry he had lived in the area his entire life and had never seen it rain so hard and so much in a single day.
When Henry settled for the night the radio and television news broadcasts were making the weather their lead stories.
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