Natural_Disaster

Natural Disaster I remember this night better than I remember last night. My sister was only ten, and I only seven. At the time my mother worked third shift, she was driving us to our baby-sitters house. It was dark out, I don’t remember exactly what time it was but it was late. I had on my favorite pink nightgown, it was wet from running to the car in the downpour. I was on the right side of the backseat looking out at the rain, it was raining very hard that night. No one was talking, we were all very tired. There was no radio playing--my mother hated music. looking out the window I remember watching the rain hit that long piece of metal that lines roads with cliffs on the sides. Watching that strip of metal being hit so hard with rain, it was very amusing to me for some reason, but then the metal stopped- the cliff was still there but the metal stopped. I listened to the rain being drastically moved by the windshield wipers. As we were taking one extreme curve in the road, I heard the old tires skid, skid to wear that metal siding should have been- but I knew it was gone out, one, rain, metal, heard, time, scared, remember, fine, even, don’t, car, being, very, stopped, screaming, say, opened, okay, came, assuring, watching, wanted, voice, talking, someone, skid, siren, silence, side, seemed, running, right, over, mothers, maybe