May 16, 2018, Hudson Valley, New York. It was a day unlike any other where the air stood still, almost as if frozen, in between the clouds from a green tinted sky.
The heat of that day wrapped itself around everyone like a smothering blanket. People rushed to various stores with one eye and both ears on the forecast warnings.
Skies slowly darkened, and raindrops started to fall with a pounding force. Then, the whistle of a freight train.
Terrifying winds lifted trees from their roots and turned familiar landscapes into images of a war zone. It was over in a matter of minutes, but the aftermath lasted for weeks.
The proverbial Finger of God, even on the smaller scale of this event, reminded mortals to take nothing for granted.
Write a blog post in exactly 9 lines. This catastrophic weather event slammed the Hudson Valley and areas of Connecticut a little over 3 months ago. Residents lost power and phone service for days, if not weeks. The brief but devastating storm left barren areas where majestic trees once stood, now fallen and tangled with wires. If anything positive came out of this storm, it was how neighbor helped neighbor through the nightmare.
