Quotes About Merridale

He don't have no orgies," he said. "How do you know?" "Nobody's never had no orgies in Merridale. It's in the town code. If you have an orgy, you get hit by lightning." "Bullshit," said Fred Hibbs. "You ever read the town code?

Both power and chemical executives (who were also catching flak from environmentalists) sent their own representatives to Merridale in an effort to discover the true cause and clear themselves, or, if the fault were theirs, find some way to reverse the phenomenon and/or cover up their involvement in it.