Nature Portfolio: Weather Experience

Weather Experience Narrative

I volunteer every summer at a day camp for kids ages 6-12. We take field trips almost every week to somewhere, like the beach. Should be great, right? Not so. Historically, the beach has always been bad for this cursed camp.  Things always go wrong. So, I'm reluctant to go every time, but I went this year anyway.

So, off we went.  We took the campers to the beach and things looked fine. We had a great time for a couple of hours. Maybe we were going to finally have a great “Beach Day.” The day at the beach

Then "it" happened. First the temperature dropped, sharply. The air turned frigid, in a matter of

minutes. But my camp director said it was fine and not to worry, we were almost done anyways. 

heads. Finally, lightning struck in the distance. Our director ordered us out of the water and said it was time to go. the Storm of Storms started pouring on us. The rain fell so heavily on me, it literally hurt my head when it hit. To make matters worse, I had to carry three buckets filled with backpacks and balls for the campers.

One of my friends had to carry one of the tired and wet campers. Even worse, the campers were so scared and wet I had to give one of them my coat, because he lost his while we ran. I was colder than I am even now in December. My clothes were falling off they were so wet.

I was just glad we had finally made it to the buses, or so we thought. When we got to the bus pick-up spot, there were no buses. My Camp Director started furiously calling on his phone and yelling as the cold Storm of Storms continued to rain down on us. The campers shivered and moaned as we all huddled together.

Finally the buses came and we got on. I was relieved we were on, but now my clothes were super sandy from the beach, and also wet, cold and clammy. And wet sand doesn't come off of clothes easily and smells horrible afterwards. To add further insult to injury, we had to sit on the bus for a couple hours because the traffic was so bad.

The Storm of Storms was really the worst weather experience I had ever had. I never got my coat back from the camper. We threw my other clothes out because of the stench. It was a horrific day, but I guess I got through it, it's not the first time that I've had a rainy beach day, or the last probably.  

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