Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Six Sentence Stories - Trip

Today I'm sharing a story from my early childhood. It seemed to be  just right for a post to link to Denise Farley's blog hop Six Sentence Stories-Trip. Denise's blog is called Girlie on the Edge's Blog. That title alone should pique a little interest. If you enjoy reading short stories that require the use of a prompt word, click the link to see what other bloggers have shared this time.



Looking down on all the water which had flooded the homes below was a sight her four-year-old eyes had never seen.

She had experienced booming thunder and lightning with heavy cloudbursts of rain hitting the windshield and the top of the pickup in which she and her younger brother were sitting alone while waiting for their dad to return from the auction yard. That had been an exciting break in their boredom, but to see the result of flooding and the demolition of the second largest city in the state with homes and piece of buildings floating in the aftermath wasn’t exciting. It was frightening and alarming to her as she imagined all the people who might not have been able to escape from the unforeseen calamity that struck and destroyed in a single day.

Her family had taken the trip northward to see her Grandma who lived where it often rained. Since her Grandma didn’t drive and wanted to see for herself the scene of the Vanport flood, they took her for a ride and found themselves in a heavy line of travelers with a similar intent that unforgettable day.



12 comments:

  1. No doubt unforgettable! Those types of experiences usually remain indelibly imprinted in a person's mind, even that of a 4 year old, maybe more so.
    Nicely written.

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  2. Childhood memories are some of the best writing. Good Six.

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  3. Floods are odd things. We rarely have flooding in our part of the country, not anything like the Midwest or West. In 2010 we had a flood and the most memorable aspect was that, the days after the rains that caused the flood were sunny and warm. But the level of the local rivers continued to rise.... very strange.

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    1. It would seem that flooding in sunny and warm weather would cause so many additional problems, or at least speed up the problems, inside of buildings. With sunny and warm weather here combined with flooding, the cause would probably be from a fast snow melt in the mountains.

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  4. Reminds me of riding out the hurricanes as a child, it was frightening.

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    1. I've never been in a hurricane, and can only imagine how scary that would be for anyone, and especially for a child.

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  5. Scary! It obviously made an impression.

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