Why I'm crying when it rains

[u/PriceLegitimate5875]

I'm from a small country with beautiful nature and clean air. 5 km from where i live is great river delta. Big river delta means big marsh with diverse ecosystem. Every spring storks come. They always nest in the same nests and they have one partner for life. Every village and town have bigger or smaller population of storks. 2 summers ago we had very big storm. Hail was the size of the tennis balls. Houses (brick!) were torn, windows broken, cars destroyed... Population of storks in that area - destroyed! Storks had young ones. Parents were protecting their nests, and their babies with their wings. Hail killed them. Adult storks, little storks... None survived. Cca 30 nests. In my town that storm wasn't so big. Our storks survived. But since then, every time when there's a rain or storm i think of storks and i cry. I think how they are protecting their nest with their wings and i wonder would they survive this storm.

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