Pick Me Up!

TORNADO!

As the sky lit up, I couldn’t take my eyes off the incredible storm going on outside my window.

‘Wow… Look at that,’ I said to my dog, Araya, as we both snuggled up in bed.

It was March this year, and the power had gone out in my neighbourhood in Nashville, Tennessee.

That night’s storm was quite the spectacle and I was happily watching it all unfold from the comfort of my bed.

Since moving to Nashville a year earlier from Los Angeles, I’d slowly got used to their crazy weather.

I was from the UK originally, but had moved out to the states to pursue

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