Not many people can fly a plane through a big storm.But that is what Lowell does.He is a pilot who looks for a hurricane.He can let people know when a hurricane might be coming.
A hurricane is a huge storm with a big eye.There is a strong wind around this eye.But in the eye of the hurricane, the air is quiet.
A hurricane is so strong that it can snap a tree in two or turn over a big boat.There may be a flood with a hurricane.Last summer,Lowell saw a hurricane flood a city in just one hour.
On this night,pictures from satellites in the sky show some strange clouds over the ocean.Could they be a hurricane? Lowell is asked to pilot his plane through the clouds.At first,Lowell can see the stars in the sky. Then, slowly, black clouds moves round his plane. He can not see at all. The wind is roaring now. Lowell must get to the eye of this hurricane.He calls to the land on radio. “The wind is too strong for me to fly in a line through the storm. I have to fly left,into the wind to get to the eye."The storm, in which the wind and rain rock the plane, is roaring with lightning and thunder all around Lowell’s plane. Will Lowell be able to make it through this storm?
Then the wind and the rain stop all around his plane. Lowell can see a line of clouds where lightning and thunder are. But where is he now, the air is quiet. He is in the eye of the hurricane.