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Personal Narrative: A Destructive Hurricane
If I were to have thirty minutes before a destructive hurricane were to hit. I would be ready for it because I would take the necessary stuff to survive it. It was a warm September weekend when I had heard from the news that a destructive hurricane was gonna will hit in thirty minutes. I was taking a morning run when I came home from receiving an alert from my phone saying that a hurricane was gonna hit. I was running at my fullest I had adrenaline running through my bloodstream which had me running straight. I wasn’t even paying attention where I was headed I just ran. Ran as fast as I could it felt like I would beat an Olympic sprinter from all the adrenaline I had. Once home parents and family had already gone into safety. We had …show more content…
I grabbed when the the roof of my house started to tear from the rest of my house. I dashed the few more steps to knock on the bunker door I knocked and scram for them to open the doors. They finally opened the doors up when I felt like quit trying. I ran inside to feel safe, the hurricane had probably destroyed my house by then. While outside the bunker I felt the tremendous winds pulling me in. I had the necessary stuff to survive the storm for a week. I had a first aid kit for the times where I needed a cut to be cured or someone got sick, canned food so that I could make a fie and use the can to cook it inside of it, astronaut food so that I could use water to make it, cutlery such as a pocket knife or scissors because at sometime during the disaster I I would need to cut something, rope so that if I needed to tie something together, matches to start a …show more content…
Water started to drip from the ceiling as the cracks look as if they were cracking even more. We put a bucket to obtain the water and whenever it was full we would boil it or drop a water purification tablet to kill the germs and bacteria in it. The winds felt hard trying to break through the door. I prayed that the hurricane could be over with so that everything could be fine again and we waited praying as a family in unity. We were really worried about the food and water because we had almost finished more than three fourths of our food in three days. Soon after I shared my food with my family and I ate a a little as usual. Some of my family was starting to get sick so I too out my first aid kit and supplied them with whatever they needed. We were all tired as we stayed there and talked to each other. For the rest of that day we just slept, and in the morning it was all gone. We peaked through the doors and saw that the hurricane was over everything was destroyed but we were

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