A Storm at the North Pole

by Khalil

                 This stories about my father his name Khalid Meftah. He is from South Yemen.  Eight years ago my father was working with Merchant Marine on a boat.  There was 30 or 35 people in the boat. One day during summer time his captain said we need to go to get some supplies for the Air Force. We will get for them some supplies for whole year because during summer time that’s only time we have chance to get to North Pole. However the place we went to is very dangerous because there is a lot of storms that happened to us. When we went there one storm attacked our ship the time we were in the North Pole. It was so frightening and dangerous. During the storm our ship stopped and we couldn’t move of all because the ice hindered our way. At that time the weather was so freezing and there was a lot of ice and high wind.

                  The country called Greenland belongs to Denmark. That’s where were the air force base is in the city call Tally. Then we had some help from Canadian coastguard they made a way for us through the frozen ocean. That took us long time to get at the place but it doesn’t matter because we made it safety. So we ticked the point and we were in a raft where there was ice, storms and a lot of winds. It was very freezing cold. I couldn’t feel my body because it was so cold. After that we got to this place, after that the ship started to tip. Then we were working very slowly because the high winds. However we were taking two or three container each day at the most four containers each day because we couldn’t get more because of the bad weather. Also we stayed their almost a week probably ten days. After that we started to take the containers, cars and foods out of the ocean. Then we started to tip the ship and move to the North Pole. After that must of the ice broken down and the high winds got better.  Then we went back to the USA with light winds, the captain and everyone was on the ship.  So we got back to the US safely and everybody was safe.  It was a tough time and scary.