Lesson 25 Essay
It
was just an ordinary day in September 2008. My siblings and I were
watching a movie when we heard thunder and really loud wind. It got
dark and all of a sudden it was pouring rain. Mom said this storm was
the remnants of Hurricane Ike that came up from Texas. The winds were
going up to more than 70 miles per hour!
We
live on a farm in Ohio, and we have a silo. When we moved to this
farm, the silo had a little piece missing from the top, and when the
storm hit, the wind blew the rest of the top off. I remember that it
was dangerous to go outside because the metal pieces of the silo top
were flying around. In fact, some of the pieces actually sliced into
our pool that we had in the yard.
The
terrible winds cut out the electricity for five days straight. We
carried buckets
of the pool water to feed our animals, wash hands and dishes, and to
flush toilets. Mom made trips to town to fill gallon tanks of water
for cooking and
drinking. Dad borrowed a generator from a friend to power the
refrigerator and some lights. He also put heavy blankets around our
box freezers to keep the food from spoiling.
It
was very terrifying because of the deadly pieces of flying metal that
could've hit something less replaceable than a pool. We are very
thankful to God for keeping us safe.
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