Minimal hurricane!!

It has peaked to such intensity that I looked down towards the runway and saw what looked like a sideways river in its place. Things were rolling down it, and I am not entirely sure what I was seeing. I have long said that the thicket in which we live is one of the great benefits of living here on account of the protection it provides from hurricanes, and I am proud to say that it is doing as great a job of protecting us as we believed it would. We know nothing of what is occurring elsewhere, but as I know many of the houses in the county are exposed to the elements, I can only hope that things elsewhere have not come to the worst. Dad called a few minutes ago from Tulsa and, after hearing Mom tell him of the conditions here, said something to the effect of: “Well, I wish we had some here.” This strikes me as a rather flippant remark, and I don’t think he understands the severity of the situation here. Granted, this is supposed to be a “minimal hurricane,” but as it grows more frightening by the moment—indeed, I am continually stopping my typing to behold the strange and somehow beautiful horror outside–I find I cannot believe he has dismissed it so.

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