2 Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or the past continuous.
It was evening and i 1)
(watch) television with my parents. The TV news
2)
(give) constant flood
warnings as Hurricane Floyd 3)
(approach). We were worried but
(decide) to stay in our house,
Later that night, at
policemar
5)
(knock) on
door and told
us that the water levels 6)
(rise). He also 7)
(tell us that we
should move Our valuables to safety 1 barely
8)
(sleep) that night 1
frightened.
in the morning 19)
(look) out of
the window. It Was beautiful day and the
sun 10)
(shine) People
11)
(walk) by
house
to their knees
water. 1 12)
downstairs to the Kitchen
and
flooded
and damaged.
13)
(pack)
few things and 14)
(leave)
AS We 15)
(drive) to a
shelter, 1 16)
(look) back
house and 17)
(cry). All of my things
were there.

Hurricane Floyd dumped 60 inches of water on North Carolina and forced 48,000 people to seek emergency shelter. Kaleatha Vines, 14, saw her home destroyed, her town in chaos, and her best friend disappear.

For several days as Hurricane Floyd approached, the TV news ran constant flood warnings. But nobody in my town of Tarboro, North Carolina, thought it would really happen. Soon, we learned how terribly wrong we were. On September 15, at 3 a.m., a policeman knocked on our door and told us that the water was coming. The dam that held back the river two miles behind our house was near the bursting point. They had to release it. They asked us to evacuate.

My parents and I got in the car, but after only a few minutes on the road, we turned around. "It's not really going to flood," my dad said. But I barely slept that night.

THE WATER'S RISING