Personal Narrative: Moving To Canada

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Whoosh! splash! about three years ago there was a fire not a extremely bad one but enough to burn the hills, the fire men got rid of it in just a day but after that there was a bunch of smoke in Wenatchee. Every one was wearing smoke masks for fresher air and no one was playing out side, and it was so smokey the farthest you could see is about 5ft. Every one who had asthma could barely breath and was the worst, unfortunately my mom and I are some of those people who has asthma. So we decided to go up to Canada with the rest of family but our dad stayed and had to work.
When we were on our way to Canada there was a lightning storm BOOM! CRACK! BANG! it was noisy but it didn't last long but it felt like the longest storm thanks to what has been

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