If I were to have thirty minutes before a destructive hurricane were to hit. I would be ready for it because I would take the necessary stuff to survive it. It was a warm September weekend when I had heard from the news that a destructive hurricane was gonna will hit in thirty minutes. I was taking a morning run when I came home from receiving an alert from my phone saying that a hurricane was gonna hit. I was running at my fullest I had adrenaline running through my bloodstream which had me running straight. I wasn’t even paying attention where I was headed I just ran.
Ran as fast as I could it felt like I would beat an Olympic sprinter from all the adrenaline I had. Once home parents and family had already gone into safety. We had a under ground bunker in our back yard. I went inside my house to get my emergency backpack. I grabbed when the the roof of my house started to tear from the rest of my house. I dashed the few more steps to knock on the bunker door I knocked and scram for them to open the doors. They finally opened the doors up when I felt like quit trying. I ran inside to feel safe, the hurricane had probably destroyed my house by then.
While outside the bunker I felt the tremendous winds pulling me in. I had the necessary stuff to survive the storm for a week. I had a first aid kit for the times where I needed a cut to be cured or someone got sick, canned food so that I could make a fie and use the can to cook it inside of it, astronaut food so that I could use water to make it, cutlery such as a pocket knife or scissors because at sometime during the disaster II would need to cut something, rope so that if I needed to tie something together, matches to start a fire, cooking equipment, walkies talkies, candles, sleeping bag, bible, and rosary.
We would lock the doors and stay there for as the hurricane would last. it wasn’t long when I had to use the first aid kit to cure my scrapes and cuts from the wind blowing small parts of the house being blown down. All that night I heard winds blowing the doors would rattle at times and the chain would rattle as the winds blew through the creeks of the door. It felt as if I were terrified of the hurricane I tried thinking of other things and couldn’t. what was running through my head was that I was gonna lose everything.
Waking up seemed a bit less to worry about because I had already knew that everything was destroyed people probably evacuated from the area to get somewhere safe. I would feel sick about just thinking about the storm | hardly ate and slept and I just stood there not wanting to eat my food not doing nothing. Eventually I did get hungry so I drank water instead of eating food because what if we were to run out to food and just starve. From the ropes I had tied it to the door just to stop the sound of the sound of the chains hitting each other.
We were sitting when I took out my bible and rosary to pray we prayed and prayed it seemed like it was thirty minutes but we had prayed for two hours straight. We prayed for the ones who who didn’t have a place to go or a shelter to stay in and for the ones who were alone. Most of the parents from my family had the stuff they needed to survive for their kids the parents would eat a little bit while watching the kids eat gratefully till they were stuffed. I had gone one day on water and another with two small meals, but I realized that if they would keep on eating like that they would run out of food quick.
I could only imagine what it would be like to go outside again and find the remaining of the destruction. I eventually ate a full meal which I had cooked a can of corn by lighting a candle and heating it up. I wasn’t gonna start a fire and use the wood we could use for something else more important. Another day passed when it felt a little better there wasn’t that much sound of destruction but the rain and winds were still going the rain would sound like if it was a little rain but really it was really it was enough to so that we could hear it.
Water started to drip from the ceiling as the cracks look as if they were cracking even more. We put a bucket to obtain the water and whenever it was full we would boil it or drop a water purification tablet to kill the germs and bacteria in it. The winds felt hard trying to break through the door. I prayed that the hurricane could be over with so that everything could be fine again and we waited praying as a family in unity. We were really worried about the food and water because we had almost finished more than three fourths of our food in three days.
Soon after I shared my food with my family and I ate a a little as usual. Some of my family was starting to get sick so I too out my first aid kit and supplied them with whatever they needed. We were all tired as we stayed there and talked to each other. For the rest of that day we just slept, and in the morning it was all gone. We peaked through the doors and saw that the hurricane was over everything was destroyed but we were safe. We had gone through a huge hurricane and we were locked up in our under ground bunker for three days.
