Tornado outbreak! O.M.G.

Oh my gosh guys! A tornado hit West Liberty Ky on March 2, 2012! They say the ratings were up to an F4 or F5. They say the destruction is so bad that there is nothing but debris on Main Street and the top of the clock tower is completely gone. I mean, it's like clean off!

Let me start at the beginning.... On February 29, 2012 there was an F2 tornado near our school. I was in class when it happened. We had a tornado drill and all the girls were freaked out. We were in reading class then. So we went into the hallways for the tornado drill. I thought it was just a drill, but then I noticed it was the real thing. So then we went to the green pod, in an old empty Kindergarten room. We hid under tables and I hid in the cubby next to Casey. Ms. Amanda said that I should go over to the girls. Then I thought of getting them pillows and I put them on the girls. Then they put the pillows behind their heads. I was singing a song to the girls to make them feel better. But I did put in a few words in the song that kind of freaked them out.... oops.

~ March 2, 2012

Two days after the F2 tornado hit near our school, another tornado was on the way, you know the F4 & F5 were the ones. I was surprised when I thought there were going to be no tornadoes in Eastern Kentucky. Only the southern part get those. I didn't think a tornado would hit here. It's like Tornado Alley shifted and it swallowed up half of Kentucky. If only Reed Timmer (storm chaser who lives in Oklahoma in tornado alley) were here, he would be able to measure the scales of these two tornadoes. Actually, make that 3 if you count the F2 tornado. Reed is a successful storm chaser who spends most of his time chasing storms. He has a lot of equipment that helps him detect the storms readings. He would be surprised from our tornadoes readings! He drives a vehicle call the "DOMINATOR"! (it looks like a big red shoe) Anyway, back to the chase... if he were here he would protect our lives and let us know what we need to do in a tornado.

Now, on to 964 Dogwood Lane, March 2, 2012 We had to get to the basement. We got everything, flashlights and candles and it was Friday. It was Family Movie Night time. We got our movie players out and charged them up so then we could watch Family Movie Night. We got two movies, "The Ant Bully" and "Everyone's Hero". But enough of that, let's get back to the tornado.... while we were in the basement, lights went off and the sky got dark and the trees started to sway. You know Casey and Dora my dog and cat from my other blogs right? My pets curled up under some outside furniture so then they were safe from any debris hitting them. (Meanwhile, back in the basement...) we were all ready to go to sleep. We were done watching our movies and we had plenty of food and water. I didn't know the scale of the tornadoes but then I found them out the next day. I didn't know what was happening but I was being very brave. We got on the mattresses and fell asleep.

The next morning, we found out that the electricity was still out and we didn't have TV for 6 days. (it was a very boring 6 days) In the morning, my mom took me and my brother to Morehead to buy supplies. We got ourselves a big generator for the office and a chain saw and lots of batteries and water! As we came back to West Liberty, we saw that there was security on the county lines. Mom had to show that she was an insurance woman and that's when we went through West Liberty.

The first damage I saw was the Methodist Church, this was my church. We go to it every Sunday (usually). It's steeple toppled over near the road. Luckily it didn't hit anyone. Then the movie theater, it was barely damaged, because it's located underneath. You know about the clock tower don't you. Commercial Bank was destroyed too. Some of it's iron steel beams were twisted inside. The whole town looked like a bomb went off in the center. Old Mill Park was damaged too. There was a big flood of the Licking River. Some of the park was swallowed up by the water. I'm sure it's gone down by now, right? In 2013 all of this will be gone. That is one year from now. When I saw the damage for the first time, I felt like everyone I knew and loved was dead, but they weren't. It made me sad, but I didn't cry. It felt like I was crying from the inside. The entire city was my heart and it was shattered. I couldn't believe this. I didn't think something like this would ever happen. I thought our town would always stay the same.... but it didn't. I hope to make new memories from our new town.

I hope you tell your kids about this when you are old and make sure you hold some of the evidence of the tornado damage. People from the Methodist Church are collecting glass from the broken windows to remember our old church and to remember the day that came. I hope you have a piece too and make sure you tell your kids and make them tell their kids and tell this story for generations to come.

Right now for the next few weeks, we must be thankful that we are not hurt. Everyone should work together as a team and make sure our community is like it was in the past. We shall work together to rebuild ourselves. To rebuild our love that we had for the City and make sure we don't waste it and make sure that we save it for the generations to come and remember the people who lost their homes and their lives. God's hand will always protect us from the evils of the wind that came to us but we can fix everything that we have. As long as we work together in love.

We will always love West Liberty.

P.S. CURSE YOU MOTHER NATURE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

~~~Another blog from Brennan..... I'll write more soon!

NO MORE SMOKING

Dear Fans, I have an important message for you....

PLEASE STOP SMOKING!!!

Did you know that you can get cancer by smoking and you will have to go to the surgeon and get all the cancer out. He will have to cut you open and get the pitch blackness out of your body.

Your lungs will shrivel up. You will be not able to breathe and you will certainly die if you do.

My mom and my Mimi took me to Bodies the Exhibition. At that exibit we saw what happens when you smoke. We saw blackness on ACTUAL human lungs. It was GROSS!

Also, smoking stinks. It's polluting our air and when we are close to somebody that smokes, we take in that smoke that they smoke too, and we end up with the same thing they have.... cancer.

There is so much information about smoking that I can't understand why people still smoke. Maybe it's just a hobby. But it's a gross hobby and you should NEVER do it!

Always be part of the red ribbon. It means I don't do drugs and smoking is the grossest thing in the universe. Are you going to stop now from this day forth? Let me know if you do!

Brennan (a non smoker forever and his family too)

Lego Train Coach

One Saturday afternoon in January, I got on the Lego website to play. I discovered that I could design my own Lego project. I decided to make a Lego dining car for a train. I got to work!

I had a little help from my mom, so if I had any errors she could fix them and then I could get back to work. The dining car was a lot of work, but I managed to make it. It took me a couple of hours to do. After I got the car looking like I wanted it, I then got my parents in the room and they saw it. We noticed that we could purchase the dining car that I made. So my mom helped me look in to doing that. Also, the website allowed me to create my own box. I put the dining car on the front. I added 4 minifigs and it was perfect picture. I got to design the front and the back of the box. It also will come with instructions for putting it all together.

It takes 15 days for the package to get here. This was my first creation that I designed and bought from Lego. I can't wait until it comes!! Toot toot... All aboard!

Summer Vacation 2011 Recap

Hellooooooo blog readers...........................

Today I am going to tell you about my vacation this past summer.

The day school let out I was VERY VERY happy! I knew that I would have a big time during summer break! I had thousands of things to do and I loved it. Starting of the summer vacation was the greatest thing in the world. I had been waiting for this my whole life. I was wondering when we were getting out and I found out and I was so happy!

The first day of summer vacation, I slept in. I thought it was a school day, but then dad didn't wake me up. I slept and slept until I woke up and I said in my head IT'S SUMMER VACATION! Then we did a thousand things.

We went to my grandma's pool a bunch of times and I played with my toy Titanic in the pool!

.... The next day I also did some tennis lessons. I did tennis lessons all summer with the greatest tennis player in the world, Emily! She hit those balls and I hit them harder than she would. I love tennis. It is my greatest new sport and I want to be a famous tennis player when I grow up. By the end of summer, I was serving and returning balls!

Then this summer, I also went to Florida with my family on an airplane. We went there for a week which is equal to 7 days. We played Putt Putt Golf, we body surfed at the beach and collected shells and made sand castles. We ate out a bunch, saw Cars 2 in 3D, we went on an COOL airboat ride in the Everglades. We went to a place called the Imaginarium which is a science place which I like. We also went to the Naples Zoo and went to the Audubon Nature Preserve and walked 2 miles ona boardwalk. We saw HUGE grasshoppers that looked like they had colorful armor on them. I did not like it. I saw a spider and it was huge, it's butt was like a rectangle that had an arch on the top. It had super long arms and it was in a big web. We also saw a mommy alligator and her babies in the wild. They were about 50 feet from us and mom said "let's get out of here"! Then we went to Uncle Bub & Aunt Linda's house. We played in the hot tub with our model Titanic and had dinner there. Then we went back to the house in Florida and had more fun until we had to go back home. So back on an airplane we went! Just like when we went to Florida, only we were going the opposite direction of Florida.

Other things I did this summer was, I went to the Newport Aquarium with my brother and my grandparents and our friend Tammy. I saw a lot of things there. Like sharks, penguins and lots of fish.

I played with lots of Lego's this summer! Including a train one that I took to our Family Reunion at Carter Caves State Park. Mimi, Papaw, Uncle Bub, Aunt Linda, Grace, Lily, and lots of other kids were there. We went into the X-Cave and the Cascade Cave. It was cold inside those caves. We saw bats in the Cascade Cave but none in the X-Cave. The tour guide said they were full grown bats but they were very tiny! From us, they looked tiny, but from them, they were full grown. One swooped down onto the crowd and then went back up into it's nest. They were all huddled together like a big nest. There was a waterfall and a lake inside the cave. But then we came back home and it was 3 days until back to school.

When the 3 days were done, I was not too happy. Then I had a very boring life and I was very upset and I wish summer vacation lasted more. But to worry, we are going back to Florida this fall!

The end.

Bye blog readers, I'll make another blog post soon!

Brennan

My views of the Titanic

Hello Blog readers:

I'm very interested in the Titanic. So I decided that it needs to be raised! I have already started a petition at school and brought it to all the kids in class, even my Principal. Here is my idea of how to raise the Titanic.

1. We will have to attach air pontoons to the Titanic's hull and the other parts of it.

2. We have to press a red button on a remote in order to make them inflate. This will be located on the off shore of New York on a large ship.

3. We will attach ropes to tug boats and put steel metal plates to the scrapes. The scrapes were made from the iceberg. Some people thing the ice berg punched a hole in the side, but it made scrapes. It allowed enough water to enter the Titanic to make it sink. We will tow the ship to the ship repair yard in New York.

The second smoke stack of the Titanic fell off into the water because it was different from all of the other smoke stacks. It was angled differently. The Titanic was ready to break apart when it reached 30 degrees. The weight of all the people standing in the back caused the Titanic to break apart. A huge crack caused this kind of thing. People were standing in the back because they didn't want to fall in the water and drown. April 14, the Titanic was hit by the iceberg, but it didn't sink until April 15 when there was enough water to pull down the Titanic.

My mom thinks it's not a good idea to raise the Titanic because there are lots of people still down there. Here's a word from my mom:

Hello blog readers, this is Brennan's mom. I think it would be REALLY neat to raise the Titanic to get artifacts and see what stuff is down there. I would like to go to see all of it in a museum. However, I feel that the Titanic should be left alone because there are human remains down there. I think we should let these people stay where they are and leave them alone. Back to Brennan...

My mom is so jealous about that. Here is my idea of what we should do with those people... get them out of the Titanic and dump them back to where they were. That way, no one will get creeped out by them. Dead bodies are kind of creepy so no one wants to be around them or smell their stench.

I'm going to work on more ships. There are ships called the Six Sisters. They all sank on different days and are all big important ships. Titanic is one of them. There are five left that I am going to raise.

See you later. I'll tell you more later about the other 5 sisters.

Signed by Brennan and his mom.

Lightning Tree

Dear Fans,

Guess what happened in our yard a few weeks ago? Lightning struck a tree just feet away from our house. It was very close to where the plane crashed last summer.

The lightning sliced through the tree like a hot knife through butter! The tree was close to 100 feet high. The lightning hit the tree at 4:00 a.m. my mom & dad told me. My dad screamed like a girl and it woke my mom up! I didn't hear it when I was sleeping. I saw it the next morning and it looked like the bark flew all over our yard! There were pieces of it on our patio.

Thankfully it didn't fall and hit our house like normal lightning does to trees.

The tree will be cut down because the tree might gets bugs in it and might chew through it and then it would fall and hit our house.

Sincerely,

Your Blog Friend, Brennan

Lost in Space Parts 1, 2 & 3

Today in school we were told to make stories. We could write about anything we want. And here is my story (it is fiction), written by Brennan Ison, Age 8.


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THINK IN YOUR MIND!

Stargate Sector 2-20982.

Floating along in space in our ship. No food. No water. Just us. But wait! What is happening? We are floating toward a comet! WE ARE GOING TO DIE! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

QUICK! Override the steering control to reverse! I got it. We are out of here! There goes the comet. But wait a second. I hear wind. A BLACK HOLE! AHHHHHHHHHH We can't get out of the suction....... The End.

Coming soon to DVD & Video Fall 2012. Or go to your local library or go on line to your computer.
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I read my story to my friends in my class two times. Can you believe it, 2 TIMES! I like to read my stories with an English Accent!

I hope you enjoyed my story. If you like my story, please send letters to my mommy on Facebook.