Term Paper on "Journalistic Dialogue. The Event Used to Complete"

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journalistic dialogue. The event used to complete this paper is a tornado that ripped through Gallatin, TN and made national news for its damage and devastation including the deaths of 12 residents. There were two sources used to complete this paper. It is written as if the author of this paper witnessed the event first hand.

TWISTER DESTROYS GALLATIN'S BUILDINGS but NOT it'S SPIRIT

The morning had called for storms. Residents in Middle Tennessee were used to storms, in fact some joked that the Tornado Alley had recently moved to include that region. For several years there had been storms in which Doppler Radar had detected tornadoes in the sky and issued alerts for the area, however, they rarely if ever touched down. Perhaps the worst that happened was a tail whipped out of the sky and damaged a few roofs before retreating back into the clouds. On April 7, 2006 however, the world of those who lived in Gallatin was forever changed, when a tornado not only touched down, but waltzed across the city as if competing in a final dance competition. When it was finally over, people were dead, businesses were destroyed, a college was leveled and homes were completely demolished.

Throughout the day, residents kept "an eye to the sky" as they are told to do when severe weather threatens. They had been through it so many times before that it was almost second nature, but because nothing really serious had ever come of the warnings, many people also went about their daily business with their radios turned to low.

My adult son was at a grocery store when we got the word at work there was a twister on the ground and headed this way," said Candace Webb. "He was on the phone with me and told me he as in the parking lot of a store and saw it hit the college across the street. I begged him to get into the building and the phones went dead."

Webb later found her son. The tornado had leveled parts of the community college, headed straight for the store her son was in but for inexplicable reasons it jumped left, destroyed a glass car dealership and then whipped back behind the store and continued its path of death and destruction.

When it got to a subdivision with million dollar, three story homes, it didn't hesitate to choose its target.

I was in the basement," said Elmer. "It took my house down but I survived. John wasn't so lucky."

John was the resident across the street, who was found clutching his wife in one arm, their poodle in the other in the basement of the home where they died.

The tornado touched down south of town and continued along the ground swallowing all that it saw in its path.

I was out in my yard," said Steve Hutter. "I heard a freight train and thought, 'Hmmm, we don't have tracks near here,'. Then I remembered what they said about a tornado sounding like an oncoming train and I turned and saw it bearing down on my street."

Hutter barely had enough time to race into the house, throw himself on the bathroom floor and hug the toilet before it hit the house.

A looked up and saw the sky racing past me," said Hutter. The tornado had ripped the roof off of his house and… READ MORE

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