The Monster: A superstorm of the 20th century
This story primarily focuses around a storm of epic proportions. This is solely non-fiction(made up, so it isn't real at all). The storm is a massive tornado outbreak(no,Grand island, NE, not you as the book business has covered you already). Instead, we focus our attention on Indian Falls, KS. The town is bustling commercially and industrially and has about 5000 residents living there, however this would change one winter day. December 9, 1989 dawned bright and clear across the city and many people wore summer clothes, which was unusual for a town so close to Colorado, whose high temperatures average about 42 degrees Fahrenheit this time of year. Temperatures that day ranged from the upper seventies to lower eighties and by the time people got off of work that afternoon, the sky was a bright, sunny blue and there were hardly no clouds in the sky. Enjoy the calm, because the story takes an epic turn for the worse. By 6PM that evening a cold front coupled with a dry line and a warm front to the north of town was creating thunderstorms that quickly became severe and, at first did not produce any tornadoes at all, but as the night went on, these storms, just 5 of them, would move over Kansas creating a string of 135 tornadoes. We turn now to the family of the story, the McGregor family. The family themselves were just about like everybody else, low or medium class and living in a four-bedroom house on the edge of town. First there was Don, a man in his late twenties, living with his own wife Sarah and their two kids, Connor and Jackson. Connor was seven, loved the color red and had brown hair and freckles. Jackson was five years old and had big hands and feet, blond hair, and he was me...
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...d still wearable. The policeman had something else too, and that was a wheelbarrow of Christmas presents for the whole family, ranging from a new Nintendo Entertainment system and a family member alive and well. The biggest surprise was the fact that the city of Indian Falls after hearing about what the family had gone through, was a new home, complete with Christmas Lights and a Christmas tree too. This was truly a Christmas miracle.
Epilogue
Throughout the next few years, Jackson and Connor remained on the good side of things. For Christmas in 1990, Jackson got a pair of blue crocs so that way he wouldn't fight over his brother's pair. Connor recovered from PTSD and in 1992, welcomed a new sister, Mariah. Connor had a photo album made of that terrible night and still remembers it to this day. He still enjoys relaxing by his family pool, but not playing in the mud.
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