Thena

I'm busy with something when I notice an elderly man near me who is clutching his chest. Fearing that he's had a heart attack, I help him take a seat and promise that I'll be back with medical attention. I go to an upper floor of the building and get several nurses. However, the elevator we need to take us back downstairs is a bit wonky. The floors are uneven, and the elevator car is tilted as though it's not hanging correctly. The elevator car doesn't line up with the doors, either. One of the nurses gets in the elevator and promptly drops all of her medical equipment. I wonder if I should have gotten someone else. The whole mess of waiting for a working elevator drags on so long that I wonder if it's been long enough for paramedics to take the man to another hospital already.

I don't remember leaving, but eventually I find myself driving home through the Four Corners area. The weather is awful. As I'm driving west, I can see two rain-wrapped tornadoes over to my left just behind the shopping center. They are small and probably just rate at EF-1. I watch them move east, and I can see the driver of the next car is sitting there, mouth agape, as she watches them too. For a moment, I think, "How cool! I finally got to see a tornado!"

I turn right at the intersection. But I quickly notice that the weather is getting worse. There are more narrow funnel clouds around me. One forms horizontally above the road. It shifts vertical and touches down right in front of me. I quickly accelerate to see if I can outrun it and end up driving right through the base of the tornado without much damage. Was I just lucky, or did not that work as a tornado should? I don't stop to ponder as I take the exit for the expressway, thinking it will be the safest way to get home. But the storms have knocked over a large tree that has fallen on the road. I have to swerve and moves left across four lanes to avoid it.