The snow burst through the trees with no warning but a last-second whoosh of sound, a two-story wall of white and Chris Rudolph’s piercing cry: “Avalanche! Elyse!”
This is the lead from the story “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek by John Branch”. It is a scene setter lede, descrbing the scene when avalanche happened.I like lede with action and suspension. I like this lede because it gives me a feel of watching movie. The scene is vivid. Through the author’s description, I can image a pitcture in my head. Also, the lede makes me wonder what happened next to Elyse, one of the main characters in the story.