Personal Narrative: Tornado Remembering

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TORNADO WARNING

BANG CRASH!! the window fly's open, I run to my room in fear wondering when the storm will stop.
My parents Steve and Venessa, my brother Harry and I were sitting in the family room, when a tornado warning came through on the UHF radio. This was my brother and I's first tornado so it was a big and scary thing for us. We had only heard of them through our parents and the news. All the windows started to shake and fly open and you could tell the wind was getting stronger and stronger. Mum and dad grabed our emergency suit cases, our photos and our pet dog, Roderick. We all hurried to our underground bunker where we had supplies of food and water. When we all safetly got into the bunker we lit our lanterns so we could see as

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