While the people of Bangor, Maine brushed off the warnings of an oncoming winter storm, flurries begin to fall.
Based on the public’s perception of televised hysteria, the storm was seen as a commercialized scheme by the media, intended to have everyone in Penobscot county rushing to Wal-Mart to stock up on goods.
Unlike majority of New Englanders, anticipating a day off from school or work, the Mainers of Bangor were by no means disconcerted by the oncoming blizzard.
Twenty minutes away from the urbanized hub that is Bangor, Tad Fellows, a student at the University of Maine in Orono sits at his cramped internship desk watching his final hour of the shift tick by. A scholar in environmental studies, Tad spends most afternoons executing menial computer tasks inside a stuffy lab for his jaded professor.
The final minutes of today’s particular shift had Tad more anxious than usual. He counted down the seconds while watching snowflakes fall from the laboratory’s one window. What awaited him as his apartment was far more gratifying than the 9 hours of classes that he had just endured.
This could get intriguing quickly…it feels like a clever twist on a catastrophe movie. Most people are buying canned goods, but folks in Bangor are either used to this, or they have already prepared? or they are in for a surprise (see, you already have three possible breaches–which may all come together to crete a full picture).
I am waiting for developments to challenge Tad to rise up and face some challenge that helps him grow, excersie his wits more than his 9 tedious hours at a desk, and figure out how to I’ve on the planet…
this could get interesting…
now, what about structure? media? maybe this is just a text piece with provocative sounds of the storm…and its aftermath?
Yu could develop this into a full draft, as your Future Visions, Assignment 4 .