At first it felt like a vacation. We stayed in a hotel room in a new city. We went out to restaurants for every meal. My mom and dad were always on their phone. I knew they were helping people but sometimes I needed to tell them things. My sister wouldn’t sleep in the bunkbeds […]
The winds were so strong, our front door was blowing open. My dad held it shut with a cooler and a mini fridge. We used weights to keep the other doors shut. Meanwhile, my mom and I were collecting the water that was pouring in. Our damage was isolated to 150 square feet of the […]
We watched hundreds of roof shingles and whole tree limbs fly by as the storm approached. We rode out the storm in my boyfriend’s sister’s fourth floor apartment. The apartment building was shaking, vibrating and swaying in the wind. Inside the apartment it got really hot. Hot is not a fun temperature for a […]
The eye sat over our house in Callaway for about 15 minutes. Our neighbor’s house across the street had fallen in so my husband took the opportunity during the calm to see if anyone was inside. Thankfully they had evacuated. When the hurricane started, we thought my son’s room would be the safest. Once the […]