Personal Narrative On A Tornado

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One of the moms told the ump “there is a tornado and it’s coming our way!”Then the ump said “We are delaying the game 5 minutes.” Then the ump looked up whether and he said “Ya we need to go home now.”But my dad stopped at sonic because we couldn't go home.Because the tornado was closer at home than right where we were. Then, we decided to go home because the tornado was heading right toward us.When we were heading home.I could hear the tornado sirens and one part we even saw the real tornado!I thought it was weird because at the softball game it was sunny and it wasn't raining.Finally, we were home and we rushed to the basement.We looked out the window and our backyard was flooded and our trampoline was moving a little!It was about 10 pm

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