Easterly Storm

At 2.15 on the 30th July 2008 a tremendous storm hit Nelson.  We had been expecting it all day and during the afternoon the wind increased until we could hear it roaring and howling outside the classroom. It banged on the roof, threw leaves and branches at the windows and slammed doors and pushed the mums and dads around, as they scurried around the school collecting their children.

We wrote this poem the next day:

The Storm

The wind howled,

the lights flickered,

the parents worried,

the leaves flew,

the branches snapped,

the roofs buckled,

the kids scampered,

the windows broke,

the trees fell,

the lights went out.

The wind howled.