SYMPATHY
"...I took out clothes, shoes, and supplies I did not need and I brought them to shelters..."
"Before the tornado hit I was sleep with the air conditioner on. While I was sleep I heard things bouncing off the AC, it was hail! I woke up and seen a blue screen on the t.v. that said “Tornado Watch!” I run upstairs and went on Facebook. People w[h]ere writing go in the basement, this might be a sign, and many more stuff. During this I was pacing back and forward to see what I was going to do because I did not have a basement. So then I found out it was downtown not near me. By the way I live in 16 acres…My feelings afterwards was I felt bad for what happen to downtown and thank God that my family and I were still alive. "
"June 1 2011 at 4:45pm I was over my friend Lili’s house getting ready for dance and I thought that it was just a thunderstorm. But it was a tornado and it had destroyed half of Spring. The first time, at 5:20 my aunt called me to see if I w/ my mom because she didn’t answer and I said I’ll call her. At 5:30 a random # called me it was my father, the tornado picked up his car while he was in it, droped [dropped] it an a tree fell on it… He’s okay but I had to call my mom to see if she was okay. Around 7 I went home and I walked up the St talking to my friend to see if she was okay and an ambulance [stopped] and parked and told me an parked and told me an my family to take shelter in my [basement] for an hr. Its really sad to see the people who lost everything and you never know what you have until its gone."
" On June 1 2011 there was an tornado in Springfield, Mass. Where I was 18 years old. One the day of the tornado I was at home watching the new says their going to be a tornado watch and I told my cousin on the phone that all it was going to do was rain then I started to laugh, then my mom came home at 4:30pm and it started hailing. My mom and I went grocery shopping, threw both of them hoping that we wouldn’t get blown away. The aftermath of the tornado I went downtown to see how bad it was and decide to help serve sandwiches and drinks. I really and truly feel bad."