I was graduating from high school on the day that everything changed.  That day was terrible and great.  I got to school at about 8:35 a.m.  Everything was going pretty good, finals were over, my sister got an A on her math exam, and I was hanging out happily with my friends; Elsa, Katie, and Lauren.  Elsa and Lauren have boyfriends named Chad and Dillon.  I was just living the single life.  At about 11:45 all the seniors were going outside for the graduating ceremony.  I sat in the 6th row with all of my friends.  The college that I was planning to go to is Princeton.  Then that very thing happened. 

     Tornado sirens started to go off and everyone was getting up to go inside because it was raining also.  I made sure that all of my friends were okay when we got inside.  The winds were really strong so a huge tree flew into the school and some of the ceiling of the school got blown off and two people flew out of it.  I heard that there are these people that go around searching for tornados and they told everyone in our school that we had to get out so that people don’t die because the tornado that was coming was two miles wide with wind speeds up to 275 miles per hour! 

     My friends and I got onto a bus with a few of the tornado people and we started following the other buses.  When we were driving the winds knocked an electrical tower down and blocked off our bus and three other cars.  The tornado was catching up to us, so we had to turn around and find another road.  But we didn’t.  We had to go to a construction site where there was a storm shelter underground.  There was a large medal grid covering the opening.  All of us had to go through the man hole.

    The winds were really strong when the big tornado came.  A machine car, called the Titus, is a car that is meant for tornados.  The guy that was driving it had the long steel wire that has a hook on it, clip on the other side of the storm shelter because the grid gate was falling out of place.  The man hole cover came off to so someone had to have their body up against the hole.  The tornado went on for about 20 minutes.

     As it kept on going, it suddenly stopped.  The man that was in the titus told us through walky-talky that we were in the eye of the tornado.  One of the girls that was apart of the tornado team told us that the winds were going to get even stronger and that we had to hold on tightly.  The Tituses chain broke and the car went up into the tornado.  But the gate stood up for some reason.  Everyone of us was scared and hoped that we were not going to die.

     When the tornado stopped we all got out of the storm shelter and looked around at everything that was torn up and all the houses that were torn down.  It made people cry.  From now on all of the townspeople were thankful that they or their family were not injured and all of the animals and people were safe.  I will be more thankful for the things that I have.  Like my friends, family, pets, teachers, and the shelter that I live in and the food that I eat.  It will cost a lot of money for everything that was damaged, and that means that it will cost a lot of money for everything in the town pretty much.  But we will get help from other people.  My friends and I will be helping the elders of the town and the little kids with their lives.  Now that it is over, we can enjoy the work we put into the things we will be doing for those people.