Close Call
As I read todays Sunday paper,
it brought back a lot of heartache,
it'll be 5 years this coming Wednesday,
when there was a terrible outbreak..
I remember when I was little,
and for the first time saw
The Wizard of Oz,
thought the twister in it looked so real,
thinking Dorothy really did
go through a horrible ordeal...
Fast forward to 2011,
when my husband was
at work up in Spring City,
and my oldest son and I,
worked in the same industrial park,
just for different companies...
meantime my youngest son was
home alone holding down the fort...
It was sometime in the afternoon,
when my oldest son Paul
came to see me at work,
saying "Mom, I think I'm gonna
head home, and you should probably
come too! There's a bad storm
coming, and it'll be here soon!"
I said "Son I'm going to stay here
at work, because this county is
not on any high alert."
Found out later a tornado did
touch down, on the other side
of our county, killing around
10 people, leaving a path of
wide destruction...
Now if I ever hear of another
tornado outbreak in northern
Alabama, we will be home
in our cellar all huddled...
and praying together.
Addendum: All told, there were 55 tornados that touched down
in the whole state on April 27, 2011 resulting in 238 deaths.
Copyright © Cheryl Hoffman | Year Posted 2016
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