CONFUSION
"...I didn't know the buses had stopped running."
AT HOME IN CONFUSION!
"June 1st, 2011... It has started off as a regular pretty day; the way most days start off when something tragic is going to happen. I had come home form school and took a walk with my friend to pick my little sister up. My friend had told me that she was watching the TV when she saw that there was a tornado warning. I didn’t believe her because it’s “Springfield” Right? Things like that don’t happen here; little did I know I was beyond right from what I thought. One I came home from getting my sister, my mom had the TV turned to the news. The guy was saying everything that I never thought I would have to here. Pictures were being flashed across the screen of people holding hail in their hands. All of a sudden I started to hear what sounded like rocks being thrown at the house. Right then was when I realized this wasn’t a joke. I had run upstairs to get my blanket to comfort me. My mom, little sister and I were all sitting on the couch just watching the news. What was even worst was that my father was at work. My mom was trying to clam both me and my little sister down, because by now it was pouring rain and hailing all at the same time. My father was texting my mom saying that he could actually see the tornado out the window from his job. My mom didn’t think that he was going to make it but didn’t tell us that until the next day after, well at least me. I had seen the picture of the truck that fell over on the bridge and all I could do was pray that eh was ok. The TV kept going to this blue screen which has always freaked me out. The 3rd time it did that and turned back to the news the tornado was downtown, I couldn’t believe that i was watching a tornado happening on live TV in my home city, at this point I had to make myself fall asleep, I had figured that if I was going to die to something like that I would like to be sleeping. When I woke up it has passed over and I was happy. The news guy had said “hopefully it doesn’t turn around”, but it did and I went right back to sleep. My mom didn’t have us go into the closet until she felt it was time to, she said it was “mothers intuition”, I guess she was right because we didn’t have to. My mom didn’t have any phone service until 1:00 a.m. once she did messages came rolling in, hearing my family calling my mom to see if we were ok made both me and her cry, to think what if we hadn’t of made it, hearing all our loved ones that we would of left behind was very overwhelming for me. My father came home at 3;00 in the morning but got out of work at 12:00 a.m. all the roads were blocked off, which made it hard for many people to get home. When he got home, I looked at everyone and realized how blessed I was to still have a home and a family. June 1st 2011 was the 1st time since 9/11 that all of your worry’s and problems were just left behind, and didn’t matter, what mattered was family, but the message was that we all need to make changes because we really are killing earth with global warming along with each other."
Tornado? I'''m just paintball shooting
"June 1st 2011, on a wensday afternoon around 5ish I was told there was a tornado that was gonna take place in Springfield I didn’t believe it, so my friend called to go paint balling which I said yes to. We got a game started in forest park in the wood across from ice skating rink and during our game heavy wind came and it started to rain a lot so after our game we went home and as I was walking down a long road home people were talking about the tornado and a ladie told me I should be home So as I got home the news was on showing the tornado picking up water on the connecticut river and had shocking images of houses and after all that arounds the skiy was completely yellow. And I had big lumps and bruises from paintballs."