RACHEL'S+STORY!!!

“Agh!” Nicolena, Rachel, and Grandma Duffy screamed in unison. The thunder rumbled outside of the white beach trailer, and the fierce lightening came right before it meaning the storm was overhead. At the next strike of lightening, the lights flickered, and SPARK, the lights were out. Rachel felt around in her jean pocket for her cell phone, scratching her hand on the rough materiel in the process. Once she found it, she opened the full keyboard maroon phone as a source of light. “Calm down, there is no need to be scared,” Grandma Duffy reassured the girls. “Rachel, you get the flashlight out of the closet. Nicolena, you shut all the doors and blinds, and I will get some blankets,” Grandma Duffy instructed. The three of them went straight to work. Rachel got the flashlight out of the over packed closet. Nicolena shut all the blinds and doors in the living room and kitchen. And Grandma Duffy got the blankets out of the back. Once everything was done and they had put on the battery powered radio to keep them updated, they sat in the dark, beach themed living room. “What are we going to do now?” Nicolena whined. As Grandma Duffy opened her wrinkled mouth to respond, BOOM, the thunder roared. In the blink of an eye, the rain came pouring down and hit the roof as if there was a herd of football players charging towards the ball. “The National Weather Station has just issued a tropical storm in Seaside Heights, Berkley Township, Tomsriver, and Ocean County. Remember, stay inside and be prepared.” The radio announcer warned through the static connection of the red radio. Rachel peeked out the blinds making them clang and hit together. “The road has to be flooded at least one foot!” Rachel exclaimed in a terrified voice. “Ok girls, let’s go into the back and change the radio station to something we can fall asleep to, and the storm will have passed by morning,” Grandma Duffy told the girls in a scared, crackly voice of her own. Clap, the thunder cracked, and the two girls ran into the back room bumping into the flowered covered walls in the process.
 * Rachel’s descriptive writing!! **