Trey Silvershot & Lidia Blackheart surrounded by St. Elmos’ Fire in Cinema Square.

St. Elmos’ Fire is a phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a coronal discharge from a sharp or pointed object in a strong electric field in the atmosphere.  What that means to those of us that don’t speak text book is that electricity in the air reflecting off of a sharp or pointed object gives off a bright blue or violet glow that sometimes appears to resemble fire.

Because it’s a sign of electricity in the air , which can effect and interfere with compass readings, sailors regarded it as an omen of back luck and stormy weather.  While this isn’t 1650 and pirates don’t rule our seas, nor do omens rule our lives one can’t help but feel in this tumultuous time in Dead End that perhaps those early sailors got it right and those vibrant blue orbs recently spotted in the square are a heralding of a storm coming, though unfortunately for Dead End it’s not looking like an electrical storm, not if you read that letter to the Editor in this morning’s edition.

The photo above taken recently in the square of Trey Silvershot , Mechanic at the Busted Knuckle Garage & Lidia Blackheart, local gang member, was taken in Cinema Square and is one of the worlds biggest, brightest and best photographs of the phenomenon ever taken.  Rumors abound that it may soon be in the ” Guinness Book of World Records” and the clever and quick photographer that took the shot has been offered several lucrative offers for the photographic rights.

The scientific community has also shown quite an interest in the photograph, not for it’s beauty but for what it means, or implies about the upcoming weather.   According to sources inside the National Weather Service  electrical fields as condensed and compact as it would take to create such intense and beautiful St. Elmos’ Fire leave very little doubt that the weather in Dead End is going to be pretty unpredictable,  full of lightning storms as well as intense rain and possibly some rather dangerous tornadoes.  With warnings like that, this reporter can only suggest that the citizens of Dead End start preparing their emergency kits and storing them in basements.

Kahlen Vaniva, DE Daily Editor & Reporter