SADNESS
"...I just started to break down crying because of the [disaster] around me..."
"On June 1st 2011 I experienced the first tornado in my 15 years of living. I was a regular hot day out, 90°, possibly a little warmer. All of the sudden all of my friends parents are calling them letting them know theirs [there’s] a tornado watch at this time I was at Dunbar Community Center and I seen all the young kids coming into the basement were I currently was and they said [there’s] a tornado I didn’t really believe because when I went back up and looked outside it looked normal. Then I tried calling my mom and she didn’t answer so I starting worrying. Then I was asking every body for a ride and the farthest that I could get was near the projects that the tornado already [ripped] apart. So I was walking the rest of the way home and I just started to break down crying because of the [disaster] around me it was sad to see that so many people lost their homes and that I could have possibly lost mine. Then I finally got home, my brothers and sisters run over to me happy that I’m safe. All I could have done was say thank you God that I’m safe and my family is safe as well. I know it was over after all the rain and the sky turned blue again."
"On the day of the tornado,
Wednesday June 1. Before the tornado hit Springfield I just got to my house
from school and my grandfather was watching the new and their were showing
tornado. I didn’t think much about it because I thought a tornado would never
hit Springfield. I had looked outside the weather started to change from being
very nice and sunny outside to being raining and hail flowing. I started to
worry a little. My mother just left the house to get some food and I called her
to hurry home. While I was waiting I sat and watched the news with the rest of
my family. They had said the tornado had hit Westfield. Then all of the sudden
the new cast had caught on camera the tornado crossing the [Connecticut] River into downtown Springfield. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I
started to get really scared. My mother had just got home when I saw that. As
the news when on about it. My family and I called my very close friends to see
if they were okay too. We continued to watch the news to see if the tornado
would hit near where I lived and if so we prepped to protect ourselves and go
down to the basement. After the tornado was gone some trees on my street were
knocked down but it wasn’t as bad as other areas were."