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Get out now, a tornado is headed straight for you.
In a frantic scramble, the adults ran outside. The world was eerily silent. Some of them scattered and the rest piled into a car, including Phoenix and her father. To this day, the adults’ faces stick with her. A woman clawed at her cheeks in terror, tears streaming down her face. Others screamed and cried frantically:
I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die.
When the tornado hit, her father dove into a ditch, clutching Phoenix to his chest. They survived.
“You re so young that you don t have words to define what that feeling of ‘we re about to die’ is,” Heberling said. “You only know if you felt it, that death looming over you. That pure terror. Knowing that whatever was happening, it was beyond anything I could define or ever know. It was just so powerful.”
Brian Mecinas
“It’s taking away a week long break that we would have had to mentally recover, emotionally recover and just take a breath, ASU student Brian Mecinas said.
Arizona State University has canceled spring break due to COVID-19 concerns, the university announced Thursday. The news was disappointing to students and a group of concerned faculty, staff and students.
Brian Mecinas, a sophomore studying sustainability and political science, said this past semester was incredibly difficult for him and other students and expects next semester will be similar. Canceling spring break doesn’t help, he said.
“It’s taking away a weeklong break that we would have had to mentally recover, emotionally recover and just take a breath, Mecinas said.