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My Horrible Experience

    I live in a small village. It is not far from a hill. There was a tropical storm few years before, so my school taught the students what to do when the disaster comes.

    One afternoon last year, I was at home. I had turned the television on and was about to watch my favorite show. Suddenly, the electricity went off. Then my father called to say that a big storm was in the area.

    We went down to the basement where my father built after the previous storm, and hid in a closet. We could hear the storm. It is louder and louder. The walls started to shake. I had been a little scared the time before, but this time I was terrified. After about five minutes, when everything had become quiet again, we went to the kitchen to look outside. I saw that our house was okay, but unfortunately, the house next door was destroyed. 

    I called my parents immediately. They were safe, too. The next day, there was news on television that it was a tropical storm, and it caused flooding, a landslide in other areas, and some people's death. We were sad to hear that. It was a horrible experience, but fortunately we all survived.

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