This week during Hurricane Isaac the scariest moment was
when I found out my grandparents roof fell off. My grandmother texted my mom
that part of their roof fell off and that water was pouring into their house. I
started to wonder what part of the house and if anything valuable was being
lost. More importantly I was hoping the rest of the house was still stable.
What she said next made my stomach drop.
She said that my
grandfather climbed up on top of the roof to try to secure the metal sheeting
back down. I sat there and thought she was joking, what was he thinking? During a hurricane he climbed onto the metal
roof of a two story house! I thought he went crazy; the other metal panels on
the roof could have flown off too and taken him with it. Luckily, nothing
happened to him except scrapes up his arms. The house wasn’t so lucky. The
kitchen, two rooms, and the attic were soaked. Meanwhile at my house the
electricity didn’t even go out.
Wow, that's intense, and I'm glad your grandfather is OK. It's hard to bring vividness to something you are not physically present for, but one way might be to focus in on how you heard about it: "Halfway through my bowl of cereal, the milk was beginning to turn my frosted flakes to mush. That's when my mother dropped her phone." Bring in as many concrete details as you can to balance hearing about and imagining this other story.
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