I've been through a lot in the past few years, but there are some other things from a little farther back.
When I lived in Texas there was a huge flood and no matter where I was, I was in 3 feet of water.
It didn't damage anything, but I was kinda scary.
When I lived in Texas there was also a very bad tornado storm.
We lived in a trailer so when my dad saw the huge tornado coming right for us, he told us
to go inside the house and hide in the closet.
It was a miracle.
the tornado DID touch ground, but it hopped over every
house in the area as if they were cracks in the pavement.
It was very amazing. I didn't see it myself, but
my father was keeping a look out.
When Katrina Past through Louisiana, it was just close enough
to my town to see the spiraling whips of clouds.
We only had one or two showers from her.
However, when Rita came through, our entire town had
a manditory evacuation and
when we left, we headed strait for Arkansas, where some of our friends from
church where headed.
We had made it to El Dorado when my dad was tired of driving and we started
to look for a hotel. Every sign said the same thing.
"NO VACANCY. HURRICANE KATRINA AND RITA VICTIMS"
We had no choice but to go and park in the Wal*Mart
parking lot and sleep in our car.
At about 2:00 in the morning I woke up and it was so hot that my back
had clung to the floor from sweat.
I woke my mom and dad and told them to keep on driving.
At that time, driving was a relief.
We finnally found a room in a really badly kept motel that only had one room left.
It was a 2 bed smokers room and since I have athma, I didn't
take it lightly. I had to sleep on the floor becuase
there were only 2 beds and 6 people.
Later in the night, we were able to change rooms to a better non-smoking
room. It still had only 2 beds, but I got to sleep on one that time.
The next day we had met different evacuees and shared our troubles and fears.
I was actually kinda happy at the time.
I was glad and thankful to God that we were all safe,
no matter what we had gone through.
When we headed off, we drove a good long ways and the sky started to get darker.
The storm was catching up with us.
The horizon was beautiful.
You could see the clouds coming around and slowly blocking out the sun and
giving it a dark red glow. the trees were swaying in the wind
and I knew that soon we would be in darkness.
We waited at a gas station for about 15 minutes before
We met up with our friends from church.
we headed off and I continued to stare at the sunset.
When we got to the town, It was already dark.
It was not raining yet, but thunder and lighting filled the air.
Sudenlly as we passed a curve a lightning bolt hit a tree
right next to our car! It almost made my father swerve off
the road in surprise. That tree was an oak that was over 500 years
old and was HUGE. it is no longer there, but a very large stump.
when we got to the place where we were to stay, we quickly unpacked our things
and headed into and old fire house that was to be our stay.
It had already started to sprinkle and we were only half done with our luggage.
We had a dog with us named Taco (a chahuaha) and it was drizzling when
they first left the building and it was pouring down rain by the time
he had returned. there were cracks in the windows and the power was out
so it was very hot with no air conditioning and you could hear
every last bit of noise that came howling through the cracks in the windows.
It was very frightening. I could see the lightning and hear the thunder.
I could hear the wind howling through every crack of the building.
the rain was pelting the building like hail and nothing but fear
remained in my body. I was in a panic state and started to cry.
I was miserible and scared. I didn't know what to do.
I just layed there and cryed and prayed myself to sleep.
Hoping that God would give us a miracle.
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