HURRICANE!

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  what some stories was doing today.

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  We're going to read a story called Hurricane.

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  This story fouls kind of the day events of a

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  boy living on the Isle of Puerto Rico Hurricane by

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  Jonathan London and Henry Sorenson.

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  The day of the hurricane started a lot like any

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  other day.

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  After breakfast, Jeff and I checked out, checked our shoes

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  for scorpions and then went outside to play.

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  Not sure I would have to check nice shoes or

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  scorpions every day.

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  A young gay, the biggest mountain in Puerto Rico, loomed

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  over us as we scrambled down the cliff to the

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  ocean. The breeze was soft and the sea was calm.

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  Inside the coral reef, borrow a giant stingray flapped its

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  wings across the waves.

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  Are Finn slapped as we waited in, watching for the

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  shrimp. Sharp black spines of the sea urchin kind of

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  sounds like a great start to a beautiful day, but

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  I love about this story.

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  Is there some really beautiful illustrations of what the typical

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  day seems like for this young boy?

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  I always like to pause in a story toe.

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  Look at the illustrations that the authors in The Illustrator

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  provided for us because it gives us a lot more

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  information than just the story within the book.

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  Beautiful Underwater day.

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  Enjoying it?

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  No. We pulled our mass down, kicked out towards the

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  reef, breathing through our snorkels and dive down.

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  See fans waves, fire quarrels flamed.

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  Schools of tropical fish flashed by like flocks of birds

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  turning in the wind.

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  Well, con gusto.

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  Us. Tasty Puerto Rican lobsters head in the dark cracks

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  of the huge breathe we came upon.

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  We came up for breath and everything around us had

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  changed. The sky had turned deep.

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  Purple crowded with crowds, clouds.

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  The air was perfectly still.

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  With not a whisper of a breeze.

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  I felt as if my breath were being sucked from

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  my lungs.

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  Imagine being underwater for a while.

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  Seeing all the image, amazing marine life and then coming

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  up and seeing the sky and everything around you completely

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  changed. I think it shows in his face how he's

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  feeling right now.

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  How would you be feeling right now?

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  We swam ashore and climbed up the rocks.

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  Mom raced from the house.

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  Ah, Hurricane!

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  She panted.

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  It's coming our way.

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  Our house could be blown right off its stilts.

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  Hurry up, Mom told us a pack quickly.

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  That's this is what I was talking about with our

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  illustrations. There's lots going on in this story that we

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  might not here in words we definitely see in some

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  pictures. How would you be feeling right now?

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  I ran inside and packed my baseball mitt and glove,

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  my shooting marbles, slinky and yo yo the necessities.

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  What other things would you be packing right now if

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  you knew Hurricane was coming?

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  Then I rushed out to put my bike away.

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  Fist of wind pounded me, punching me sideways, the palm

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  trees bent and thrashed in a wild dance.

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  The wind was pushing the waves into the mountains.

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  They broke over the coral reef, then crashed against the

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  rocks and a burst of spray as high as our

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  cliff. Batten down the hatches!

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  Dad shouted in his old navy talk Aziz as he

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  slammed the storm shutters.

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  I tried to whistle for Trice, but no sound came.

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  This guy was alive.

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  Lightning scripted.

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  This scribbled on the dark clouds that had buried a

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  young gay thunder shook the earth.

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  Suddenly, Trist left into my arms and almost knocked me

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  down, the palms whipping crazily slung coconuts at us.

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  Everybody piled into the car.

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  I was crammed in the backseat.

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  Besides Jeff in a suitcase, Trist sat on my lap

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  and whimpered.

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  Imagine you being an animal during all this and not

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  really knowing what's going on.

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  How would you be feeling?

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  Would it be the same emotion that you think a

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  human would be feeling racing against the storm?

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  The moment Dad drove up, the sky fell.

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  Rains slammed into us like a crashing wave all the

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  way to the shelter.

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  We drove through the rains so solid it was like

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  driving under water.

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  The shelter was an old navy bunker, our barracks where

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  sailors used to live.

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  Babies cried and grownups bustled around.

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  Kids yelled at one another.

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  I sat on a sagging bunk bed and hug tourist.

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  Suddenly, there was a loud crash.

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  The wind ripped a shutter off, glass shattered.

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  The hurricane roared as it the lights went out.

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  Mom lit a kerosene lamp.

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  Dad and two other men shoves a metal lockers in

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  front of the broken window.

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  I helped to the barracks shivered and Crete, like an

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  old ship at sea, now squeak in the wood as

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  they were trying to hold the whole building together.

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  Wonder how he's feeling right now?

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  Would you be feeling the lights are out?

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  The families together, At least they've got their family.

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  Somebody started to sing so quietly at first that I

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  thought I was just hearing things.

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  But her voice grew stronger.

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  Jeff joined in.

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  Then my folks and I.

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  Soon everybody in the shelter shelter was singing Silent Night.

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  No Jade Oppa's No J Day of War.

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  Christmas was months away, but nobody cared.

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  The singing made us feel better.

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  We ever had a time where you felt like singing

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  or humming.

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  Kind of made you feel better, helps you get through

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  a time that he's feeling really good right now.

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  Finally, halfway through the night the wind died down, the

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  rain stopped hammering.

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  All was silent.

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  Well, it's over, Dad said.

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  Mom gave me a big hug when we got home.

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  The yard was littered with coconuts and pawn palm fronds.

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  Wonder what a palm frond is guessing from the picture

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  there, the big pieces of the palm trees or the

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  leaves, but the roof was still on our house and

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  our house was still on its stilts.

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  way or lucky.

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  We heard on the radio that just 50 miles away,

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  a 10 shack shanty town had been flattened by the

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  wind and the waves.

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  The next morning, Jeff and I started cleaning up our

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  yard. The sky and the sea were rosy and calm

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  above us.

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  Probable, Unbelievably green stood L young gay.

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  It was tall and peaceful, as ever as if nothing

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  had happened.

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  Ramos, I shouted to job, Let's go!

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  We raced down the cliff passed to the beach.

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  The sparkle of the sun on the water was brighter

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  than ever.

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  It's really a nice story about how quickly or hurricane

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  can come and unexpected.

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  If you remember back in the beginning of our story,

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  the two brothers were down at the water, enjoying the

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  beach. If you've ever heard that saying the calm before

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  the storm, that's where it comes from.

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