Listen to the conversation. Use the list below to fill in the missing words.

CD2, Track 4 bathtub batteries candles evacuate flashlights garage hurricane hurricanes knock down North ready power residents power lines storm TV warning yard furniture

a. That was a really bad hurricane you had last month! b. I know. It was our first hurricane since we moved here to 1__________ Carolina. We thought it was terrible, but the old-time residents told us it was just an average one. a. How much 2_______________ did you have? b. Warning?! Thats all we got. Twenty-four hours a day, all day, for about a week. The radio, the TV, the newspapers. The news was nonstop. a. So, what did you do to get 3_______________? b. Well, we had to get everything out of the yard. We put the yard furniture and the barbecue grill, the garbage canseverythinginto the 4_______________ . If we didnt, they could fly through a window during the hurricane. And we bought lots of food canned foodin case we didnt have 5_______________ for cooking. We had to buy batteries for 6_______________ and radios. And they told us to buy waterlots and lots of water. And we filled the 7_______________ with water, too. We also bought a power saw. a. A power saw? b. Uh-huh. Hurricanes 8__________________ trees. And in a bad hurricane, two or three trees might fall in your yard. Everyone around here has power saws to cut them up. a. How bad was the hurricane? b. I thought it was terrible. The rain was so heavy we couldnt see out the windows. The wind was about 80 miles an hour and it reached (=went up to) 100 miles an hour at times. It knocked down the 9_____________________, and we didnt have electricity for two days. We were lucky only one tree came down in the back yard. But our neighbor had a tree come down right through his roof into one of the bedrooms upstairs. He had water all over (everywhere), in all the rooms, because the rain was so heavy and it rained for hours. a. So, did you 10__________________? b. No, we stayed in the house. For this storm, most people stayed in their houses. a. Were you scared? b. I was so scared! Most of the time, I stayed in the bathroom. I thought,any minute, something was going to come flying through a window or that a tree was going to fall on our house. My husband was more relaxed. He lit 11_______________ and listened to the news. a. So, are you glad you moved to North Carolina? b. Well, we really like it here, but these 12__________________I dont know. Maybe well get used to (, acostumbrado, ) them.

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