Personal Narrative Essay: We Are Driving To Tenaha

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We're driving to Tenaha to go see my aunt, because my dad hasn't seen her over two years. While we are driving we have the radio on listening to Hot Station 96.3, minutes later I hear the sirens going off through the radio. Afterwards I get a text message from my cousin kimberly saying that a Tornadoe is going to hit Shelby County in a half an hour. I show my parents the message kimberly had sent me, and my dad immediately turned around and drove to my uncles house who was the closes, we tell him what's going on. He lets us in his house so we can tke shelter, we quickly gather wood and nails so we can put them against the windows so when the Tornadoe goes by there won't be so many glass broken inside the house. Our reactions to this Natural

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