31 Epilouge

Hannah had taken her father's death extremely hard. She vowed that she was going to do what ever it took to save lives. She had accelerated her studies, and by the time she was in high school, had knocked out most of her general education courses and had started on the specialized courses in atmospheric science. Her mom had taken over operations of Twister Severe Weather Research, and Hannah had taken over as the lead scientist. She had graduated top of her class at the University of Oklahoma with a bachelors degree in atmospheric science and was about half way through a masters degree course load.

"Have you been looking at the outlooks?" Emily asked, leaning against the door to Hannah's office.

"Yeah," Hannah said, glancing up from the bank of six monitors on her desk. The name plate on the door still read "Dr. John Peterson" under it, a smaller plate simply read "Hannah". "I was about to call Joe and ask him to pack up the truck."

"Ok," Emily smiled. "Lexie told me this morning that both her and Olivia want to go with you." Emily had gained custody of Olivia two years after John's death when Tina had a drunk driver slam into her, killing her instantly and severely injuring Olivia.

"I'll take them and I'll have them back Sunday night." Hannah said with a smile.

"Ok," Emily said. "I'll have them get stuff packed up, just let me know when you are going to roll out."

"Will do," Hannah looked at a picture of the family on the desk. It was from when John was alive and it showed the four of them at the zoo, Hannah was twelve, Lexie was eight. Next to it there was a picture of Emily, Hannah, Lexie and Olivia. Behind them sat the truck that had carried them to safety that fateful day. Hannah picked up the phone on her desk and dialed a number. "Joe, It's Hannah."