Fiction: Group 6
What is so great about a Typhoon?
Korean International Springboard Programme, Lee, Joshua - 14, Fiction: Group 6
he year was 1937 and I was living in Hong Kong. I was working as a doctor. I had been through
many typhoons and seen the damage that they had done. On this day the weather had started
raining and big grey clouds were in the sky. I turned on the Radio and I heard the news. It said that
a typhoon had blown through the Philippines and destroyed houses and killed many people. I felt scared.
The Hong Kong Government had sent a warning on the radio telling us to stay in doors. I could see people
outside I shouted to them to get inside, but they didn't listen and said they had to carry on with their work.
My house was safe, but I worried about the people in the houses made out of wood and bits of metal. I sat
in my house listening to the wind and the radio. The wind was blowing hard and the rain was lashing down.
Suddenly a window smashed, then another. Soon all my windows were broken and glass lay in pieces on my
floor. The noise was unbearable, the sound of the wind and broken glass with metal and wood hitting
houses. Then I heard a cry for help. It was a mother and her small child. I bravely ran outside and the wind
hit me and knocked me over, I got up and had to dodge old signs which were blowing around. I saw the
woman and her daughter and grabbed them and dragged them back into my house. The wind calmed and
the woman thought it was over, but I had been in too many typhoons to be fooled. This was the eye of the
storm and soon we would have the second part. Outside I could see some bodies on the floor. They were
not moving. Some people were crying and I shouted for them to come in to my house. Luckily I had
medical equipment with me and I could put bandages on the people's cuts. The wind and rain started again
and we huddled on the floor of my bedroom praying for the typhoon to end. After three hours of waiting
for the typhoon to stop the wind died down and it was safe to leave my house. The typhoon had devastated
Hong Kong. In the harbor there were many sunken boats that had crashed together. The streets were
flooded and littered with rubbish and also dead bodies. Altogether 11,000 people lost their life to the
typhoon. On the radio they called it the Great Hong Kong typhoon. I always thought this was strange
because it didn't seem so great to me.
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