05.05.03
I didn't know it was supposed to rain yesterday. I should have guessed, maybe - we'd been under severe storm warning since we were chased out of our fishing spot last week by a tornado.
When it got bad, when the police officer came in the cafe and told us to get in the bathrrooms NOW, we began pulling people out of the parking lot inside to the bathrooms, away from the glass. I saw one tornado touch down - but it wasn't as close as it looked.
And after about an hour, we started making lattes again. The sirens stopped, the people who took refuge went home. But when the next storm rolled in as the sun went down, we simply closed the cafe and went home to light our dark houses with candles. We didn't even have to ask anyone to leave this time. They saw the clouds gathering, and ran.
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I didn't know it was supposed to rain yesterday. I should have guessed, maybe - we'd been under severe storm warning since we were chased out of our fishing spot last week by a tornado.
When it got bad, when the police officer came in the cafe and told us to get in the bathrrooms NOW, we began pulling people out of the parking lot inside to the bathrooms, away from the glass. I saw one tornado touch down - but it wasn't as close as it looked.
And after about an hour, we started making lattes again. The sirens stopped, the people who took refuge went home. But when the next storm rolled in as the sun went down, we simply closed the cafe and went home to light our dark houses with candles. We didn't even have to ask anyone to leave this time. They saw the clouds gathering, and ran.