Sirens blaring, they hunkered down in the shelter until the “all clear”. They emerged with blinking eyes and found a neighborhood unrecognizable, everything demolished. What havoc Mother Nature can wreak. Grateful that this time nobody died, they will fix the broken things.
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I’ve never had to deal with anything like that, just an occasional hurricane nearby with nothing worse than fallen branches. I liked how you captured the gratitude that no lives were lost. That must be so frightening for people to cope with.
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Oh, does “this time” hint at backstory or foreshadowing? Those two words made this dark post even darker for me.
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Mother Nature loves a clean slate!
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We hear about tornadoes here in Alabama all the time, and, thankfully, I’ve not been in one. But the images are so devastating. Well done
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I’m right next door in Georgia, and after Alabama is done with their tornadoes y’all send them to us. Thankfully, I’ve never been in one either.
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You can’t let stuff breaking stop you. You just clean up and move on. I like it.
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That would be so devastating. I lived in tornado alley for 25 years and just being in those storm cellara was frightening enough without the mass wreckage.
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There is no fury than Nature scorned.
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