August 24, 2005
The thundering rolling and the lightning striking kept me up for most of the night. These weren’t just your normal thunder and lightning storms, they were much more powerful. I started to get a bad feeling about the way things were going to turn out. In my fifteen years of life I had never heard anything like this. The rain started pelting the roof of our house, the winds were howling up to one hundred miles an hour. I could only imagine what would happen next. My family and I all rushed to the television to see the 6am news. The news reporter was warning everyone that this storm had gotten much larger and much more powerful as it traveled through the Gulf. The news reporter was telling everyone that the must leave as soon as they could. This storm was powerful enough to take the lives of many people. My family and I packed all of our essential belongings and traveled north to safety.