in wet-weather gear, had just checked on the two quards, and the sensor monitor. Inside her dome the downpour sounded thunderous. As she stood looking over the shoulder of the duty technician the sceen went blank. The tech typed in a set of instructions, but the screen remained blank.

“Sorry, Chief, but the sensors have shorted out in the rain.” He shouted above the din.

“Can you re-boot them?” she shouted back.

“Already tried,” he responded. “The fault must be in the sensors themselves. Probably drowned, shorted out.”

“I thought they were hermetically sealed?”

“This much rain, the moisture has to find some way in; even if its one molecule at a time.”
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