Thunder

__Thunder__ (Not a true story) All we heard was that extremely loud CRACK of thunder. All of us stood frozen for about ten seconds. “That was the loudest thing I have ever heard!” I whispered to my mom, when I broke the silence. I was about eight years old and it scared me more than anything that I had ever experienced in my short life before that. My mom quietly comforted me by saying, “It’ll be okay soon. The storm will clear and we might even be able to see a rainbow.” But just then something worse happened. The power went out with a __POW__!!! In our backyard was a power circuit and it probably got hit with lightning. It exploded and the TV we were watching went out and all over the lights went dark. The only flashlight that my mom knew of was downstairs in a closet. “I am not going to risk my life going downstairs to get that flashlight,” my mom told me. “Mommy, isn’t there a battery radio in the kitchen?” I asked “Oh my goodness! Yes there is! Good thinking. I’ll go get that so that so we can listen to the weather,” my mom exclaimed. My mom went to get the radio in the dark and when she got back, she turned it on. This is what we heard: “THERE IS A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WORNING FOR crackle  AND THE SURROUNDING  crackle …  AREAS”. “That doesn’t sound good mommy,” I told her. “It’s okay, at least there is not a tornado warning,” she assured me. Then mysteriously, and slowly the clouds turned into the night sky, clear as day.