Anyone read this horror novella?
It's a great read... I also enjoyed the movie.

       
The morning after a violent thunderstorm, a thick unnatural mist rapidly spreads across the small town of Bridgton, Maine, reducing visibility to near-zero and concealing numerous species of bizarre creatures which viciously attack any human who ventures out into the open. The source of the fog and its inhabitants is never revealed, but strong allusions are made to an inter-dimensional rift caused by something known second-hand to the townsfolk as "The Arrowhead Project," long rumored to be conducted at a nearby top-secret military facility.

The bulk of the story details the plight of a large group of people who become trapped while shopping in the town supermarket, among them a commercial artist named David Drayton (the story's narrator), Drayton's young son Billy, and their estranged neighbor Brenton Norton, who accompanied them into town after his car was smashed by a tree. Also trapped in the market are a young woman named Amanda Dumfries and three soldiers from The Arrowhead Project; the soldiers' eventual joint suicide lends some credence to the theory of the Project being the source of the disaster.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mist

I rented the movie

It reminds me of what a CEO of a big company said during an interview on TV.

"Most people give up on the one yard line".

Perhaps when you are in doubt don't do anything, wait.

Help is on the way.