An Account of Hurricane Claudette

The electricity just went off and we are hoping that we didn’t lose anything as we did in one of the previous storms. Mom and I were standing outside, and I turned to go back in the house. I saw the lights come on and off three times and then all within the house was dark. The rain has begun to fall in significantly heavier amounts. To our east–the direction of the eye–we can hear a faint rumbling sound similar to the sound a train makes. I of course find this disturbing since I have often read-=-and at least on one occasion experienced–that this is the sound a tornado makes upon approaching. Whether this is the sound of a tornado or the approaching eye or both I do not know, but we shall uncover the truth of it soon. A few seconds ago I saw a large box fly over our roof without falling. This, I fear, is very indicative of how strong the wind is since there are not many other buildings around us. Before the electricity went off, I was able to contact my best friend via Yahoo Messenger and inform him of the situation. Having done so, I turned off the computer so as to avoiding losing it to lightning as we lost our other computer. While we were on our way back home from the pizza parlor, we noticed to our dismay that many of the radio stations were dead.
I do not know how long it will be before we are able to return to town, but when we left the mood was so nonchalant as to be disturbing. While we were eating at the local pizza parlor, we noticed that the wind had picked up to the point that it appeared that their sign would fly away. Mom called to the waitress, “Give me my bill; I have to get out of here!” The waitress said, “Why? What’s wrong?” Mom looked at her incredulously, possibly remembering–as I was doing–the image of the storm heading due west south of Victoria, in other words directly towards us, and said, “Don’t you know? There’s a hurricane coming!” The young waitress simply looked blank and said, “Oh….”

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