Storm Runners: Chapters One Year Earlier–3:10PM

by Roland Smith
Chase Masters and his father travel the country chasing the most destructive storms and trying to help those in need. Then, devastating Hurricane Emily slams the Gulf Coast of Florida, and Chase and two other middle schoolers have to survive the storm of the century.

Here are links to our lists for the book: Chapters One Year Earlier–3:10PM, Chapters 4:12PM–7:42PM, Chapters 5:46AM–7:20PM, Chapters 7:56PM–01:28AM, Chapters 01:41AM–3:42AM
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  1. uninhibited
    not restrained
    It was almost as if he thought she was still in there and would come running out one day, filling the house with her wild, uninhibited giggling.
  2. torrent
    a heavy rain
    Chase watched his father walk across the yard in the now pouring rain. John Masters hadn’t bothered to put on a coat and he was getting drenched. His lightweight cowboy shirt clung to his lean, ropy muscles. His brown hair had turned black in the torrent.
  3. renovation
    the state of being restored to its former good condition
    Chase’s father climbed down from the tree and gave his son a thumbs-up sign, which Chase took to mean that he could continue with his renovation and maybe, just maybe, they could put the past behind them and get on with their lives.
  4. deafening
    loud enough to cause temporary hearing loss
    There was a blinding flash of white light followed by a deafening explosion that shook the house.
  5. stench
    a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
    The sharp stench of ozone filled the backyard.
  6. random
    lacking any definite plan or order or purpose
    Another game was How to Get Out of Doom City. This consisted of his father picking a random street in a random city, and a disaster like a flood.
  7. recession
    a situation in which the state of the economy declines
    About a week after the lightning strike, the economy was struck by recession. The building industry tanked. Chase’s father and uncle’s business was on the verge of bankruptcy.
  8. proceeds
    the income or profit arising from a transaction
    He sold everything they owned, including their house and their vacation cabin on Mount Hood. With the proceeds, he bought the Shack and the Shop, paid off his half of the construction company’s debts, then signed the company over to a grateful but stunned Uncle Bob.
  9. humidity
    wetness in the atmosphere
    Emily had started out a few weeks earlier as an innocent little thunderstorm in Ethiopia. She moved west over the Sahara Desert, picking up sand and heat, then swept out into the Atlantic, where she became a tropical storm and got her name. As the trade winds pushed her farther west she gathered humidity and power.
  10. telepathy
    extrasensory communication from one mind to another
    Tomás’s English wasn’t good and Chase’s Spanish was nonexistent. Chase wasn’t sure how Tomás and his father communicated so well. A combination of Spanglish and telepathy, he guessed.
  11. inspection
    a formal or official examination
    A few years before they hit the road, Uncle Bob had jokingly said that he would give Tomás a five-grand cash bonus if he could frame a two-story house that passed building inspection in twenty-four hours.
  12. invoke
    request earnestly; ask for aid or protection
    On top of his dash was a plastic statue of Saint Christopher, patron saint of travelers. Saint Christopher was also invoked against lightning.
  13. meteorologist
    a specialist who studies weather conditions
    Chase joked that he should become a meteorologist for a local television station.
  14. sheepishly
    in a manner showing embarrassment or shame
    She looked at Chase for a moment, then started laughing.
    “What’s so funny?”
    “The look on your face. Are you surprised to see a giraffe, or are you surprised that I’m Marco Rossi’s daughter?”
    Chase smiled sheepishly. “Both, I guess.”
  15. reverberate
    have a long or continuing effect
    At that exact same moment, there was a terrifying roar that shook the metal building and reverberated inside Chase’s chest and all the way down to his toes.
Created on Fri Oct 03 20:25:50 EDT 2025 (updated Tue Dec 16 14:54:49 EST 2025)

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