My sister and I were in Waynesboro, VA with our older brother watching our nephew while him and his wife were out. He was working on some remodeling at the church and she was out shopping. On his way to work he dropped us off at the public pool for reprieve from this unbearably hot weather. Being from Washington state we had not yet become accustomed to the heat and humidity of Virginia. we were standing in the shallow end of the pool with our nephew when the sky lit up with a bright flash of lightening and one of the biggest clap of thunder I had ever heard. I was holding on to the metal slide into the pool and quickly removed my hand when I felt the tingle of the electrical current as it was flowing from the air through the slide into the water. Needles to say the life guards made us all get out of the pool and under cover. After a short time we decided to walk home as it was just a short trip. What we didn’t realize was within that short walk was a wide open field to cross and after that a metal bridge crossing the river. Both had to be crossed in order to get home. We ran as fast as we could across the field and stopped short of the bridge. The lightening had stopped momentarily so we made a mad dash across the bridge. The gate to the bridge was stuck like a magnet to the latch and we had to use all of our strength together for it to budge. While running across the bridge we noticed a boat had moved to the side of the river with some people getting out onto the bank. We were not sure what they were doing, we were to scared ourselves. Getting home from there was another adventure as we had no idea where we were, Our nephew was crying. My sister was crying, we were all scared by I did not was the others to know how scared I was too. After some time, I can’t recall how long we found our the house. Our nephew ran to his room, my sister ran to the room we were staying and crawled all the way under the covers closing here eyes to sleep.. counting sheep. I walked out into the living room, opened up the blinds in the living room and continued watching the storm. We were all scared as heck and had a great time.

Dice roll: Storm, Slide, Magnet, Boat, Sheep