TWISTER

You might wonder what possibly could happen when you see this pictures

This picture was taken on the 13 April, 2014. The photo is a picture of my house which is located in my hometown in Central Java in the Wonogiri district. One may think it looks like something strong had swept away the roof and poured million gallons of water on the floor. And what was it ? I was shocked to hear the news and trying to contact the family there to find out what really happened. This is the story of my aunt about the incident.

Yes, it was a twister with a scale three in my mediocre eyes, strong enough to wipe away almost the entire roof. Trees around and twist around bunchers of bamboo trees behind the house. It was such a normal day before it happened. One may only thought it was going to just rain when the cloud was quite dark and a mild wind blew.

But a slight tought of it looks strange to me did cross to my mind, as the cloud was getting darker but atmosphere was a little hot an uneasy. It was just odd to me

The feeling was still there when it began to rain. Oke…take it easy, it’s just raining. So… I kept staying inside the house. Only a minute later when I was sitting down and looked outside, I saw dry leaves, branches and dust mixed together and blew hard from behind the house. That was when I realized, no no no it was just a casual rain.

Soon after the wind blew stronger, takking away all it passed. I ran outside, took my daughter , yelled to my father wake up from his nap and quickly find our safe place.

We were watching in awe, speechless, seeing how the twister worked its way, threw away the roof, took it down almost together, seeing the falling tress. It was dark, black scary wind. The sound was hollowing, making it like a jet plane was fast approaching the house.Mixing with the sound of the rain.

Thank God it all happened in the middle of the day. I can’t imagine if it took place at night, things might get worse. The twister lasted in around fifteen minutes. When we thought it was safe enough to check the house and grateful we were all fine, we dared ourselves to enter the house.

Goodness help !! The house was, well I can’t tell no more. The picture has spoken million words. Next was a hectic and chaos moment,as neighbours flooding out their houses and found their houses were as damaged as mine.

True, as we walked around the neighbourhood, it was like we had been just attacked by a giant who blew a strong mighty wind out of his mouth. Unbelieveable . Thankfully none of people was hurt, everyone was safe. The following evening was chily and dark it, it was black out. No electricity, we managed to spend the nite with undisribeable feeling and found the dry place to sleep. Once in my life time Iexperienced such twister. Thing I usually just watch on tv. Thankfully the next morning, considering the wide range of the damage the authority declared it as a nature disaster and help soon came. One thing to learn, when the mother nature shows its mighty power, we must respect and take it as it is.