We evacuated to Birmingham, Alabama. The hotel room was so small. My dog peed on the carpet. She snuck into a bag of sugar cookies and ate them. Then, she got sick. We were all getting on each other’s nerves. My parents wouldn’t let me go back into Panama City with them after the hurricane. […]
Hurricane Maria destroyed my house in Puerto Rico in 2017. It was made of cinder block but it flooded and quickly became covered in mold. Hurricane Maria was the worst natural disaster to hit Puerto Rico. The houses in Puerto Rico aren’t built well. People weren’t doing anything to help each other. It was a […]
I had my triceratops stuffed animal and my blanket with me. I tried to take a nap but my sister kept waking me up. It is hard to sleep on the bathroom floor while a hurricane is outside. My mom and dad let us watch at first. The trees fell and then the gazebo. After […]
When it became a Category 4, we had no choice. We had to stay. We wouldn’t have left the cats though. We take in rescued cats and there are too many to pile into a car. We stayed for Opal. We didn’t think this would be much different. We bought supplies and waited for the […]
Chris: “Any chance I could hire you to board up my windows,” I asked my neighbor who was boarding up his house. I am a lawyer. That isn’t one of my skillsets. I had spent the day before the hurricane filling 40 sandbags. We thought the storm surge was going to be our biggest problem. […]