[Keith Perry]

Five years ago a tornado formed offshore of the next island out from here and skipped and jumped across the water and marshes to Coffin Point, where it killed a woman around the bend from me by dropping half a giant old live oak and crushing her little blue house. I watched it come ashore about 1000 feet up the beach. Facing it, it was dark, turning away it was still day. Tremendous noise with leaves being torn from one side of the trees in my yard.