Once upon a time, there was a young child named Timmy. Timmy lived in rural Iowa on a farm, and he did not like storms. There are many storms that occur near his house every year. Sometimes tornadoes even form and destroy farms and crops. 

One hot summer day, Timmy was playing outside while his mother planted flowers around the house. The wind started to pick up a little bit and the temperature dropped a couple degrees. Timmy looked to the Northwest and saw a big dark wall of clouds slowly moving in his direction.

“Mom is there going to be a storm?” Timmy asked.

“Yeah it looks like it,” Mom answered, “Let’s go inside and watch the weather channel.”

“Okay,” Timmy replied.

    Timmy’s dad was at the store picking up feed for the livestock and a few other things. 

“Where is dad at?” Timmy asked. 

“He had to go to the store to get a few things,” Mom answered, “I’m sure he will be back soon.”

    The storm got closer and closer to Timmy’s house, and Timmy started to get scared. 

“Mom I’m scared of the storm,” Timmy confessed. 

“Why are you so scared?” Mom asked. 

“I don’t want the storm to turn the lights off,” Timmy said, “And I don’t like the wind.”

“It will be ok Timmy the storm won’t hurt you. We have flashlights downstairs in the basement to use,” Mom said.

    Ten minutes later, Timmy’s dad got home and fed the cows. He went inside for a little bit and watched the weather channel. When the weather channel announced that there would be strong winds in their area, Timmy’s dad told Timmy and his mother to go down into the basement, and went out to the porch to see how far away the storm was.

“Why is dad outside,” Timmy asked, “Shouldn’t he be down here with us?”

“He is just watching the storm to tell us when it will be here,” Mom replied.

Just then, Timmy had a flashback to when he was younger. A big storm came through and destroyed many fields and farms around them, and they had damage to their farm as well. He was very scared and that storm was one of the main causes to him being afraid of storms.