NATIONAL WEATHER EMERGENCY:

”Fox 9 news reports of heavy hail and devil stones of fire are on the way. They are traveling 285 mph and are deadly, please get to a safe place and stay there. This is McKenzie with fox 9 news. The State of Minnesota now holds the world record for the fastest wind gust ever recorded on the surface of the Earth. Fox 9 news, McKenzie”

My mouth dropped as I turn the tv off nervous and damn near having a heart attack. ”MOM” I yelled at the top of my lungs ” did you hear what is coming our way” yea she replied with a blank scared look. Without thinking I ran out of the house jumped in my 1995 station wagon and drove to go get my little sister from 5th grade. The class wasn't over yet but I wasn't leaving my heart in a building with other little people and strangers that she hardly knew and people that she just had a name for, even if it meant that I would have to die I was going to get her. This was the same severe weather that had killed my father and left my mother with broken heart syndrome, she's never been the same since. I will not let this happen again to my family.

10 years ago:

E short for Ethica was from a city in Minnesota named St.Paul, the capital of Minnesota and the oldest city there as well. When Ethica lost her dad they were forced to move to a low-income neighborhood because her mother couldn't take care of them the way her father did by herself. Ethica’s mother was a full-time Cafeteria lady and her father was always on the road with truck driving but he made decent money to hold his family together.

This same severe storm had hit the state of Minnesota 10 years ago, it wasn't as strong as this one but it was strong. Martin was on his way back from California to spend some time with his family before he had to leave again for another month. He was 2 hours away, he made a phone call to his wife telling her that he would be there in two hours and to please have dinner prepared for him he was hungry and haven't eaten that whole morning. Doing what she was told she had dinner prepared for her husband before he got there but she had a sharp pain in her heart and something told her to call and that’s what she did.

”Sweetheart where are you”?she said the food is getting cold and you should have been here. She heard him say that he was dying and that he loved her and right there he took his last breath on that phone. She was devastated and completely changed after that.

Present:

I knew the storm was coming and I was for sure that I was going to beat it and I did on the way there but on the way back was going to be hard and it was, by the time I had carried my little sister out I saw people running being burnt and dropping dead. I ran to the car and stuffed her in there, I looked down and my foot was on fire but I couldn't feel anything. Determined to get home safely I leaned on the car with my hands and asked God to guide me home. The ignition is on drive... GO!!!