Personal Narrative Essay: The Texas Dust Storm

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It was a horrible day for us in Texas it was 1931 When all this has happen. Mom, Dad, and I we’re having trouble with this upcoming dust storm. It was so tense, with the loose, dry and dusty surface on the outside. The wind started to to blow harder and harder, I started getting a little terrified. When I saw the black pitch dark sky I yelled out to my parents “ Mom.. Dad!.. The storm is coming!” They quickly came out of their rooms and started getting towels and wetting the towels, to try to cover most of the cracks in the house to prevent the dust to come in the house. My parents said to me “ Here put this wet towel on your face to cover the dust from your eyes” So I did… When I hear all the crops all of our equipment, getting blowed away, I started to become more afraid. My parents saw me getting scared so they said to me “ Everything is going to be ok.. Don’t worry” I also went …show more content…
A few minutes has gone by and the dust storm is still happening. My Dad stopped hugging to check outside and what was happening, I took A peek too but all there was outside was dust all the crops, the farm, everything was gone. It was one of the scariest moments of my life. It was 2 hours until the dust storm cleaned up, Half of our house was cover in dust... It was the scariest moment of my life. When we got cleaned up my parents said “ We need to move… I don’t want this happening again” But we didn’t end up moving we just hoped it wouldn’t happen again. A few months later.. We had a storm but it wasn’t a dust storm (thank god) but it was a pretty big storm. It was a big one, but not as bad as the dust storm we had a few months ago. I was still scared but not as much as I was before

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