Writer's Block: Too scary!!
Apr. 21st, 2010 07:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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As a child, we lived across from an abandoned school. I can't even say what kind of school it was, because it'd been so many: junior high, high school and technical school. As so many schools on Long Island are, it was surrounded by acres and acres of fields - football, basketball, tennis, soccer, you name it. At night, storms raced across the fields, funneled by ancient oaks and maples. Our house was directly in the path of these storms, so they seemed to hit our home and break open in full fury. We lost quite a few trees over the years, one going down in our neighbor's house.
What I remember though was the thrill of watching that storm race in. And the fear that this time the tree would hit our home. I didn't know then about insurance, didn't know about how those adult things worked. So every time that wind blew, I worried that we'd lose it all. And have to go live with my grandparents in Arizona.
Which wouldn't have been all that bad. With the exceptions of a few dust storms and the annual monsoon, the storms weren't that bad. And there were no trees to speak of. Just lots of flying cacti. :)
As a child, we lived across from an abandoned school. I can't even say what kind of school it was, because it'd been so many: junior high, high school and technical school. As so many schools on Long Island are, it was surrounded by acres and acres of fields - football, basketball, tennis, soccer, you name it. At night, storms raced across the fields, funneled by ancient oaks and maples. Our house was directly in the path of these storms, so they seemed to hit our home and break open in full fury. We lost quite a few trees over the years, one going down in our neighbor's house.
What I remember though was the thrill of watching that storm race in. And the fear that this time the tree would hit our home. I didn't know then about insurance, didn't know about how those adult things worked. So every time that wind blew, I worried that we'd lose it all. And have to go live with my grandparents in Arizona.
Which wouldn't have been all that bad. With the exceptions of a few dust storms and the annual monsoon, the storms weren't that bad. And there were no trees to speak of. Just lots of flying cacti. :)
