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Tornado Comes Toward Hospital

weird clouds in a calm sky a tornado is spotted children want to peek its roaring toward us many are hysterical hospital hallway lights go out silence day turns ebony alerts hit cellphones uncomfortable in my flimsy paper gown next to wheelchairs some run towards basement non-ambulatory can't I stay with my friends two are panicking two of us reassure them we are in gods hands tornado turns north leaving these babies alone sitting on dads lap crazy crying now great relief we are all safe it missed hospital

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Michelle Faulkner

Date: 5/31/2019 4:15:00 PM

Great phrase 'uncomfortable/in my flimsy paper gown' - vividly describes the vulnerability, I was so glad this had a happy ending!

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 6/1/2019 4:30:00 AM

I am too. The woman across from me was on the phone screaming at her husband to get the kids out of their trailer and get to her sister's house. She thought they had already gone, and her trailer was in the path. An F-4, on Tuesday, 100 miles wide.