On June 29, 2012, I was awoken from a deep sleep by the loudest storm I had ever heard in my life. All I could think as I lay there was that tornado survivors often describe the sound of the tornado as something like a freight train going by-and what was going on outside sounded exactly like a freight train. Why was there a tornado in urban northern Virginia? Could our brick townhouse withstand tornado'force winds? How could I protect my infant daughter, sleeping just a room away? And how was it possible that I had no idea that this was going to happen in this day and age?
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