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In the year of 2011 I was a Junior attending The Ramsay High School located on the south side of Birmingham, AL and I was working at the Berney Points Piggly Wiggly located in the West End Community.

On April 27th in the year of 2011, my day started off as any regular day for a high school Junior, but to many others, it was a day that they will never forget.

On this day, multiple tornadoes ripped through the city of Birmingham and altered the lives of many people.

This was a day that was filled with highs and lows at the same time.

On this day, someone living in the United States of America received a promotion on their job and someone experienced the roof of their job ripping off of the building and swirling in the sky.

On this day, someone living in the United States of America was received the keys to their new home and someone left their home never to return to that same place again.

On this day, someone drove off a lot in a brand new, never before driven automobile and someone had a tree to land on their car.

On this day, someone experienced the birth of a new person into their family and someone said goodbye to someone they loved for the last time.

Unfortunately, many people across the city of Birmingham, AL highs and lows in the same day all because of a storm.

If you know anything about a natural storm, you’d know that the arrival of storms can be calculated and predicted, but the impact that it can have is unknown.

A storm can be detected on a radar days before it impacts a particular location, which will give people ample amount of time to properly prepare for the effects, but at the same time they cannot do anything to control the impact.

People can look into the skies and see the signs of a storm coming because the clouds will cover the sun and the day will began to darken, but they still don’t know the level of impact that the storm will cause.

Sometimes we can limit the effects that a storm can have on us if we know well in advance that a storm is just over the horizon, but it’s the storms that we are unaware of that causes the most damage.

The effects of a natural storm can really hurt an individual but the storms of life can be detrimental even if they see it coming before it arrives.

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A couple can see a marriage falling apart before it actually comes to an end, but a divorce is still difficult to recover from.

A student can notice the failing grades before they actually fail the class, but the humiliation and low self-esteem can alter the confidence of that student for the rest of their life.

A parent can watch the health of their child decline for months, but actually burying that child is unexplainable.

Although we can see disaster miles down the road before it ever arrives, no person can truly say that they are fully prepared to handle the storms of life especially when it seems as if the storm is occuring out of it’s expected season.

We all know that certain situations are bound to happen in life as we get older, but when those situations happen “prematurely” we say that they happened out of season.