The setting effects the mood by the storm that is going on can make you scared because of the way the kids are acting and what they are doing. When the hail started coming down, the kids were getting hit with the hail and they started to bleed and that can change the mood to a scary mood. At the beginning of the story it was a worried mood because alex and his brother thought they were going to miss the bus and didn't know what was going to go on that that day. On the second bus, it was a scary mood because the bus driver drove through the wall at the store and there were little kids on the bus. The whole way through the book it is a scary mood. Now there is a gas leak going on and that is scaring the kids. The older kids are trying to keep the younger kids calmed down.