One night I was sitting in my sitting room watching the Dunphy show when I fell asleep, it was about 9:30 p.m and it was raining heavily. An hour had passed and at 10:30 p.m I awoke and I walked to the kitchenand to my amazement, my dad was holding the door whilst my mum, sister and brother were putting newspaper on the porch to soak up the water because it was threatening to engulf us. It transformed the road to a river that would swallow anyone that tried to gaze at it. My sister and I gasped as an old mans mobile home and everything he held close to his heart was destroyed. As the villagers tried to persuade him to leave and that everything was going to be ok, water was finding it way around under the table and under the lino. Everything was ok until....... ... ..
My neighbours shed was destroyed and a pool table, and a dart board went missing. It was still raining at 11:00 p.m and I headed to the snoozer (bed).
In the morning all the men in the village were trying to repair the damage and talking, the women were ringing everyone to make sure they were all ok.
In Glengad there were landslides and head stones were knocked off and six coffins went in the sea and people had to hold on to branches. Helicopters and the news crews were and still are surrounding Glengad.
And thats the day the earth
moved.
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Landslide Terror
Friday the nineteent of September was terror time for the residents of Glenged,
Pollathomas and Gorthbrack which once three really beautiful spots in the county
of Mayo.
As earth came tumbling down
Doon Carton mountain the rain was falling from the clouds with hail stones as
big as snow balls.
Windows were shaking and tea cups breaking as bridges cracked and fell in. Inside
residents shook and shuddered while they wondered if this was goin to be the
last moments of their lives. Thankfully no one was injured.
So much damage was caused on the night of 19/9/03.
The End. by Rebecca
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