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The once sunny day of the beach was tainted with a storm brewing above. As everyone scattered off the beach, they quickly grabbed their possessions as rain fell down upon them. The music playing form the cafes and rides suddenly come to a stop as their customers quickly disappear. The once happy sound of laughter was silent as the grave. A dark shadow stretches its arms form over the ocean once more and the once mighty sun is blotted out. Even the laughing seagull is nowhere to be found for they have all fled the storm.
The once might castles of sand could not with stand the wrath of the storm, for the walls were brought down by the might sea. With the wind howling like the lone wolf it eats away at the duns, and any remaining footstep is all forgotten. It even plays with what was not salvaged. When the storm showed its face it grabbed the trash as if was to throw them but then decides to have mercy and releases them, but only to do it again like the playground bully.
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The ones in there cars wait as there windshield wipers franticly swipe to keep the rain at bay. While they helplessly wait, the storm presses it advantage and begins to pound the pier shooting spouts of sea water up and on the pier as if the sea was trying to drown it. While that was unfolding it pressed for the docks. Boats begin to rock and tilde on the edge of a knife. The sounding trees fall victim to the might of the storm and surrender to the howl of the wind, but those that do not surrender forfeit their limbs and branches as if they were

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