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The growing conditions for the crop were ideal. Adequate rainfall, a longer than usual growing season and hot weather with lots of sunshine made for a bountiful harvest. The harvest in tonnage was nearly double what it had been in previous years, but no one cared, dehydrated watermelon could be kept indefinitely, provided it was kept in a dry place.

Things went exceptionally well as the crop grew and matured to record sweetness on the fines. One could nearly walk across a field stepping only on the firm bodies of thousands of beautifully mature watermelons. Everything was in readiness for the harvest and dehydration process to begin. Once again the citizens of Mount Perry turned out to wish the farmers well in their venture.

On the given day, the machinery could be heard all over town as it roared to life harvesting and dehydrating the watermelons and depositing the seed like dehydrated product into bags at the back of the machine.

The machines were about one-hundred-fifty feet long with a big cutter like thing on the front that cut through the tangled vines. Behind the cutter was a basket like thing with holes in it that caught the watermelon but allowed the chopped up vines to pass through the holes. The watermelon rolled to the back of the basket like thing and were hoisted up and out by a thing that looked a lot like a huge slotted spoon. The watermelon was then gently lowered into the second half of the machine.

The second half of the machine was a long box like affaire, with steam belching out at various points along its top. On closer examination one could see the ends of a great many shafts protruding from it and they were all turning very slowly in unison. At the very back of the box like thing, sat a man with a cloth bag catching the dehydrated watermelons and putting them into the bag. When the bag got full, he stitched it closed with his sewing machine and began filling the next bag.

The full bags were taken periodically by truck to the storage area where they were carefully stacked in an temperature and humidity controlled area. They would remain in their climate controlled atmosphere until it was time to ship them to the customers all over the world. All of whom were clamoring for their first taste of Instant Watermelon.

At last the big day arrived and a rail car rolled up to the front door of the storage facility and 800 fifty pound bags of dehydrated Instant Watermelon were loaded into a special box car. Amidst the cheers and well wishes of the entire population of Mount Perry the box car rolled off onto the main track and was made part of a special train on its way to the exact center of the United States for shipment to every corner of the world.

About twenty miles from Mount Perry, the special car hit a fault in the track. It tipped over and fell into a quicksand bog. According to the few survivors who got away in time, the car sank all the way to the bottom and into an area of unlimited water supply before the box car broke open. What followed a was a virtual Vesuvius eruption of watermelons.

The re-hydrated watermelons flew straight up out of the quicksand bog in a continuous stream surrounded by clouds of flying mud and liquified quicksand. They flew up to a height of several thousands of feet. Some even attained orbit. It is estimated it will be raining watermelons world wide for the next year or so. We all know the term, “Nuclear Winter” the term, “Volcanic Winter”. Well, this is an, “Instant Watermelon Winter”.