The Mercy Of The Sky: The Story Of A Tornado - Plot & Excerpts
The rain had ceased, the hail had stopped, and even the blustery winds that had been screaming through the school’s creaky old windows seemed to have momentarily died down. To anyone who didn’t know better, it might have seemed that the storm had miraculously lifted, that the horrible nightmare suddenly was over. Yet it’s the silence that people who live in Tornado Alley have learned to fear the most, that ominous pause before the worst usually comes. The teachers inside Plaza Towers knew it likely wasn’t over, but as they crouched down in the dark hallways alongside or on top of their tiny students, some couldn’t help but hope that maybe, just maybe, their desperate pleas to God had been answered. That somehow that terrible tornado coming for them had lifted right back up into the sky, sparing their students, their school, and their city. Lord, lift it, please lift it, Emily Eischen, a thirty-three-year-old second-grade teacher, silently prayed as she knelt in the hallway of the school’s back building.
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