June 8 Drama NL

About this newsletter:

Life is Drama. Whether it is merely a leaky faucet or a torrential downpour, there is drama at every turn.

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
~Tom Stoppard



Letter from the Editor:

This past Saturday night, I stepped from the shower and looked to my dog laying in the hall.

"Lucy, has the phone rang, pager gone off, weather radio sounded?" I asked her.

No sooner than the words had left my lips, the weather radio indeed went off. It was a thunderstorm warning for Carter County. That's me!

Rushing to get into jeans and my Skywarn shirt, I grabbed cell phone, pager and dog and headed out the door.
Once I was in my position, I called Emergency Operations Communications on my cell. You see, the mic on my radio is down. I can hear everything that is being broadcast but can't broadcast myself. But I refuse to let that stop my storm spotting duties!

I began to span the sky. To my west and a tad to the north was a wall cloud! A wall cloud is an organized lowering in a thunderstorm. It has lower-level rotation in it and is most often where a tornado will form. My first wall cloud! Cool! I called it in and then scanned the sky again.
The storms we were watching were expected to have sustained winds of 75 mph and one and a half inch hail. I was looking everywhere at once, and keeping a close eye on the wall cloud.

Two and a half hours later, I'd had nothing but heavy rain and some 45 mph winds. The storms had dissipated and Skywarn was sent in...


Disappointed? Were you expecting a tornado, high winds blowing large trees by me? Hail that left my car a rumpled mess?

This was a true account of what my Saturday night was like. (I know, most girls go on nice, quiet dates!) Since this is a non-fiction tale, the ending worked.

However, if you want to write good, riveting Drama, you'll have to give your readers something more. Don't build the drama and then leave them hanging, thinking, "What just happened?" Or didn't, as the case may be.
Give them an exciting, climactic descriptive account of the outcome.

They'll be begging for more!


See ya next month!
Nikola


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