At the beginning of the book alex and his brother were going to school when there was a hail storm and the bus they were in started to get hit with the hail stones. After awile the hail stones kept hitting the bus and the bus lost control and flipped on its side. The kids then started flipping out and some had died at that time and the rest were flipping out and bleeding. Then there was another bus full of kids that had wrecked into a store to get the kids to safety. After the second bus driver saw the first bus on its side, the bus driver went over and got the rest of the kids and then the bus blew up.

At the store when everyone was inside they all started flipping out because the gates had closed around the store and they couldn't go anywhere. There was kids in the store that went from kindergarten to high school. The high schoolers wern't really freaking out. About 2 days after the hail storm there was a chemical leak and that is when they had to get on the roof and fix the air conditioners because the hail had damaged them. They finally started cleaning the store up because it was destroyed.