100 WC Week 1 - Run!

Like a thousand wounded animals howling in pain, that sound... that heart-ripping sound rose up, snaking through the trembling air. Remorselessly it stained land, sea and sky with violent warning hues of inky-black, bloodied orange and burning red. Couldn't they hear? Or see? Or sense the ominous danger in a sky that was no picture-postcard sunset, but a poisonous serpent of cloud?

'Run!' shrieked my brain, but somehow the horror-roar that was filling the air rooted my feet to the bridge beneath them. And then the noise stopped. And I saw the surging white wall of water that was coming for us...for all of us!