Dreams

More tornadoes


Driving around with my aunt and uncle in Illinois; it's gray and rainy. The clouds are low and ripped, and I muse half-heartedly that this is tornado weather. Sure enough, through the blurry windshield I can make out about six thin funnels in the distance, quickly joined by more. I even see one horizontal tornado, at least a mile long, twisting and undulating slowly before dissipating. I watch more form. All in all, about two dozen funnel clouds. Once again, I say something like, wow, this is exactly how my dreams look!

My uncle drives, generally trying to avoid the outbreaks. I watch the clouds dip to form tornadoes very close by as the wind picks up, and now we're in the middle of an outbreak, in the bear cage as they say. Crazily, a funnel drops down over a large trash fire still burning/smoldering in the rain, and suddenly the entire tornado is aflame. It whips very close to the highway we're on, and I urge my uncle to pull over just in time to avoid the tornado as it speeds by; I can actually feel the heat.

I'm surprised to find that it's just a dream when I wake.






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