they end up bringing people together. In September of 1996 Hurricane Fran swept

through my town with the power of mother nature behind it all the way. Fran brought

winds that reached speeds of close to 100 miles per hour, tornadoes, and golf ball sized

hail. Needless to say that this storm did a lot of damage. All over the town people did

not have any power, could not use their water. I remember how dark everything was

without any light. I was scared but also kind of excited because I had never been in a

hurricane before. The thing that scared me the most was the possibility that I would not

have a house when I woke the next morning.

As my family sat in the living room everything was silent except for the loud

claps of thunder and the howling wind. I peered out of the window looking at the clouds

speeding across the sky frequently being lit up by the bright flashes of lightning. As I

looked out the window I noticed that a 110 foot tall poplar tree was slowly making its

way down to my roof. I told my step-dad about the tree and he decided it would be best

if we did not stay in the house. So we made a break for our cars

step-dad's shop which was only two miles away. The drive did not take two minutes, it

was available. We looked like a bunch of lumberjacks going to town on a forest. We

took trees and bent them like they were no more than wet pasta noodles.

massive effort to help someone else. Something like that does not happen often. Just for

dangling telephone lines and debris laying all over the road. As I turned into my

happened. People from my street started walking up with every ax and chainsaw there

seemed like a giant hand that just picked up objects and threw them across the street, and

That night I could not sleep. I stayed up and watched the storm devastate the town. I

leaves and wood. I just sat in my truck at the stop sign and looked out my window in

once again and it seemed as if we didn't cut one piece of wood. That is when it

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