Scary Wind Monster Descriptive Writing

The Scary Wind Monster

Do you remember the night of June 25, 2010? Did that night ever scare you? Did it make you scared of storms? On June 25, 2010, my mom, sister, and I were at home watching the news because there were tornado watches and warning out in Lyon County. When they canceled watches and warnings, my sister and I went to bed. My mom just got off the phone with my dad and so she went to the windows to watch. My mom saw the sky start to get a weird color more than normal. It almost looked like it was black. The wind started to pick up and it was getting faster. My mom told us to grab a blanket and we were just going down stairs to sit and wait for dad to get home. When my mom opened the basement door, our ears popped and my sister’s

We had just gotten home from the Black Hills a few days before the storm. My dad got called out that night and it was just my sister, mom, and me at home. We were watching TV that night before we went to sleep. We turned on the news to see what they were saying about the watches and the warnings. As we kept watching for a while, we started to hear them say that it was not going to get any worse and so they canceled all of the watches and warnings. So, since they were canceled, my mom said that we could go to bed now. So, my sister and I went to bed and we had just gotten settled in. She just got off the phone with my dad who told her to watch the weather because the clouds looked very weird from George. My mom was still watching outside because it had gotten a lot darker, almost black. The wind had started to pick up and become stronger so she started walking back to our rooms. Then she noticed that the wind was becoming very strong. She told us to grab some of our blankets and we could just go sit downstairs until our dad came home. Once we got our blankets, we heard the wind get faster and faster and louder and louder. When my mom opened the basement door, our ears popped, and my sister’s window exploded. We do not remember ever touching the stairs at all. This was just the beginning of how our long night would begin. Let me now tell you about what happen during the

The next thing I knew my sister and I were under one of our play-houses and my mom was sitting by us. My sister and I were screaming for our dog, Jade, and my mom was calling my dad. My dad was on his way home from doing a search warrant in George. When they were on the blacktop out of George he got my mom’s call. He started speeding up and passing the other troopers and cops. They radioed him and asked him why he was going so fast. He told them that his house just got hit by a tornado and that his wife and girls were in the house. All of the people started racing to our house. My mom was still on the phone and she noticed either dust or smoke in the air. The dust got really bad and my mom thought that the house was on fire. My dad was calling out all of the fire trucks and the ambulances. When he got to my house he came running downstairs and grabbed my sister first. My mom and I walked up the stairs after him. He went and put my sister in a cop car and then came to grab me. When he took me outside I looked up and I saw constant lighting and it made the sky purple. It was also windy. When he put me in the car my mom got in next to me and my sister. Then the deputy, Birkey, drove us to his house by Rock Rapids. We stayed the night there and my dad and the other people followed the tornado and helped the other people out. After the tornado hit the house, and my dad came home to get us to a safe