When we first got out of school on Monday afternoon, everyone was excited because we got to miss two days of school, and by the way things looked, the hurricane wouldn't phase us too badly. One of my dad's favorite things to do is to sit on our screened porch and watch a storm come in, so our whole family went sit on our outdoor furniture and watched the hurricane. Within ten minutes, our outlooks on the hurricane had changed drastically. The news started creating more hype about the storm, saying it would be really bad, maybe even worse than hurricane Gustav. As we watched limbs on the trees in our yard crack and fall to the soft, soaked grass and the rain steadily increase to a horizontal downpour, we started to wonder how bad this storm would be.
After about a half an hour, we went inside and started thinking about where the trees around our house were. My parents were saying that there were two big trees by my room that may fall, so I shouldn't sleep there. There are also a few trees by our living room that could fall onto our house, so we were told to stay out of there. My dad said, "If this hurricane gets really bad, the best place to be is actually under the dining room table". At first we thought he was joking, but quickly realized he was being serious. Sitting on our screened porch, I realized how powerless we were in the face of a hurricane. I mean, there was nothing we could do right then to protect ourselves from this monster. We had already gotten the generator out, filled up numerous gas tanks, bought bottled water, batteries, and food, and scoped out our house for safe places to be if trees started falling. We had prepared, and all we could do was watch our enemy slowly approach our house, worrying about if we would be OK. Luckily, hurricane Isaac was kind to us, only causing a few limbs down in our yard, and a lot of leaves and twigs. After the storm had passed all my mom could keep saying is, "We are so thankful that nothing bad happened to us", and she was right.
Good scene, Dru! I really like the detail you give in this line: "As we watched limbs on the trees in our yard crack and fall to the soft, soaked grass and the rain steadily increase to a horizontal downpour, we started to wonder how bad this storm would be." I like how you bring in some dialogue in the second paragraph, and I think you could go even further with that, giving us more of the conversation and details on how things are said. For instance, what made you realize that your dad was serious about going under the dining room table? Nice work.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad nothing bad hapened to your house. Nothing much happened to mine either. I like all the detail you used in this post.
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