My two oldest kids were working at the Draper McDonald’s. At
the time, Mickey D's stood between a dairy, a cornfield, and a pig farm. My two
youngest kids were out bowling with friends. I was uncharacteristically home
alone, filling the time between washing up after lunch and starting dinner by
making a batch of plum jam. I’d opened the kitchen door for a moment, and
noticed the sunny day had grown suddenly dark. The weather looked worse to the north,
where the sky was a sickly green color. It reminded me of something I’d read: that water droplets in storm clouds can absorb red light and radiate green. Later
we heard on the news an F2 tornado - there have only been two in this county in
my lifetime – had cut a swath through downtown Salt Lake, shredding roofs, smashing
windows and pulling up trees as it went. Tomorrow it will have been a quarter
of a century.
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