Strange dream

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I dreamed that the family of glass from our sword troupe got kicked out of where they were living and had to go live in a cheap motel.
It seemed like the cheap motel in our town that is in the process of either being rebuilt or torn down.

We received notice that a tornado was coming and was going to hit the hotel where they lived. For reasons not clear to me, even in the dream, we decided that the best way to help them was to drive to the hotel and try and rescue them. Even in the dream I was asking "we have their number, why aren’t we just calling them?", but it seemed imperative to go there.

We got there just as the motel was about to be hit by the tornado. The motel was L shaped and we decided that the safest place was in the corner where the walls were strongest.
We shouted at them to go into a room at the corner that was reenforced and the best place to be in a tornado, but they just stood there looking confused.

My wife and I ran over to them and pushed them into the reenforced room just as the tornado tore the roof off the room they had been in.

"Get under the desk!" my wife shouted to me. As she used to live in a tornado prone area, I took her advice and dove under the desk in the corner of the room.
She managed to get to the reenforced room and was watching me from the doorway.

The tornado was directly over head and had a very animated look where it seemed to be made of a lot of blue/grey circles moving back and forth against each other.
There was music much like on TV shows when dramatic things are happening. Sort of a chorus of voices wailing.

The desk I was under started being sucked up into the tornado, so I held it by one leg and kept it from flying away. Even in the dream I was thinking "it tore the whole room off, I shouldn’t be able to hold back this desk against it", but I did.

The tornado passed and the desk dropped back down and folks began to climb out of the wreckage.
Dream ends

Many of my dreams I have at least a clue as to what prompted them. But, I haven’t a clue at all on this one.
I have never seen a tornado directly. (I’ve seen them on TV…)
I’ve had to take shelter against them a bunch of times, but don’t live in a place they are common.
The weather report for the next 10 days does not show any conditions that would make them likely.

It’s true that the family of glass is facing having to move out of where they live. I don’t think they’ll end up in a cheap motel, but I guess it’s possible. While we have put up folks that needed a place to live for a while, I don’t think we could manage a family of 4 in our apartment on top of us.

It’s also rare for me to question the dream when I’m having it. Usually even when things don’t make sense in the dream, I don’t think about it until after. Not this one.

All in all, very strange.