NATHAN HAD CRANKED the radio to full charge, and he and Jessica were listening to the local broadcast that passed for news and local interests. The small East Texas town that they were in had not even existed a year ago. The five hundred and eight inhabitants of the great town of Sentinel were as fine a set of specimens of the American stock as could be found in these days and times.
The current broadcast was a warning to the current population to avoid direct sunlight. People and animals in direct sunlight over the next few weeks were liable to get very bad sunburns. The news was a warning, and the science team in Sentinel had confirmed, that the Gauss strength of the earth's natural magnetic field was growing very weak, and if the change remained linear, the field would reach zero stren
