Read the excerpt from act 1 of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. As we hear the voices creep up from down below, small, mildly disturbed voices, highlighting these kind of phrases:

VOICES

Electricity's off.

Phone won't work.

Can't get a thing on the radio.

My power motor won't move, won't work at all.

Radio's gone dead!

Based on the stage direction and the dialogue, what should the reader picture in this scene?