Excerpt from Mother Nature’s Fury
Tracy Wilson

As we approached a fresh red light on a main thoroughfare through Huntsville, I glanced at the sudden peculiar coloring of the sky. The unusual hue and the stillness of the air gave me a sudden sense of uneasiness. The light changed and we made the left turn that would lead us home. It was after the turn that everything around me seemed to be occurring in slow motion. I heard it before I saw anything. At first I was sure that a train or a big truck was directly behind the car. Then I saw the debris, not the image of swirling winds we tend to associate with a tornado, but trash and wires and dirt. I remember a sudden feeling of weightlessness as we were lifted off of the ground.
When the tornado was approaching the narrator's car from behind, what did she first think was coming toward her?

A) a gigantic animal
B) a collapsing building
C) a flood of river water
D) a train or a big truck