High School Narrative

In 1978, I was attending High Point Elementary School located in Clearwater, Florida. That particular day, I can remember it like it was yesterday. Before I went to school, I had chores to do around the apartment each morning. One of these chores, I had to do immediately when I awoke was to take my two dogs outside for exercise, feed, water, and allow them to relieve themselves. During this course of events, I noticed how low the clouds were that morning. It appeared to me that a big storm was coming in from the Gulf of New Mexico. I remember looking up and thinking to myself, “if I was on top of second floor of the apartment building I could have touched the clouds.” As a child thinking it was pretty neat and very unusual circumstances for
As my mother dropped me off at school, like all mothers do with providing me with the typical mother speech about behave in school, come home right after school, and let the dogs out. I get out the car and ran across the school parking lot for my morning Reading and English class in the downpour of rain now. I made it to class on time, but I was soaked from the rain. During this class period, the teacher was providing us an over view for our reading assignment before we were scheduled to go to lunch. That day, another classmate and I was next to the multi-window structured wall that provided the only natural light in the room and the register was blowing out heat. I was sitting there listening to the teacher, but I was distracted by the rain pounding on the windows and noticed how hard the rain was coming down outside. I looked outside and you could not see more than foot in front of you. At that moment, I remember looking down at the ground to see how much water was on the ground and a bird was trying to fly by the window. But, the bird was being pushed to the ground due to the pressure from the rain. Then the teacher said, “We are going to hold off going to lunch for a moment until the rain let’s up.” I look back know and remember the teacher’s facial expression that grew from a very calm person to pure panic in her eyes in a split second, this unexpected change describe for individuals under the nine common stressors by our co-authors. The teacher eyes got wide as softballs and she started shaking, then yells out “Everyone get on the floor now!” I had barely enough time to hit the floor before I heard a large sound like a locomotive coming and then a huge explosion going off. The wall of windows exploded and I felt myself being pushed across the floor by the force of the tornado and the table hit me on top my head,