A Boat Ride

10 A Boat Ride While vacationing last summer, my brother and I were out in the middle of the lake on our rowboat, having a great time. We were about one kilometre away from our campsite when the wind picked up and bad weather rolled in. " Hurry up! " my brother called. " Let's get out of here before the storm hits. " We started to row back to the shore. But we soon found that the wind was very strong, and we were moving slowly. One kilometre seemed a long way to go. Over the treetops where our camp was, we saw clusters of clouds floating above. They weren't ordinary clouds. They were very dark. “ It's going to be a terrible storm, " shouted my brother. We rowed as hard as we could, but it seemed we were getting nowhere. The winds were raging now. There was a strange green colour in the clouds as they raced angrily above us. Try as we might, we could make no headway against the powerful force. Just then, my brother came up with a good idea.

Since we obviously couldn't make it back to shore against the wind, we could simply go with the wind and let it push our boat to the other shore. We turned the boat around and began to row as fast as we could. The little rowboat had never travelled so fast! Although the other shore was also about a kilometre away, we covered the distance in no time, thanks to the powerful wind pushing us. We reached the shore and stood there, watching the sky. It was then that I saw the scariest thing ever. From the sky came a long stream of cloud, shaped like a funnel. We realized that we were seeing a tornado! We watched the tornado touch down and sweep across our campsite. If we had made it back to the camp, who knows what would have happened to us! Our site was ruined, but we weren't hurt. We were very lucky. I learned about the incredible power of nature that day. It's something that I will never forget.