My 73-year-old grandfather held the door shut. For three hours. The wind and rain did their best to wear him down. My 2-year-old clung to me, but stayed calm. We were in the hallway and we watched water pour in from the window. To this day I wake up in the middle of the night […]
“If you live on the water be prepared to lose everything you own at least once in your lifetime. That’s what we always heard. When Hurricane Opal hit Pensacola the storm surge was high, even here in Panama City. We moved off the harbor to a home more inland. We had planned to stay for […]
“Someone brought chili. Of all the things to bring to a hurricane shelter someone brought a crockpot of chili. It was delicious. We went to the shelter the morning the hurricane hit. There were about 30 of us. As the storm got closer the windows blew out. A dad and son got cut up pretty […]
My husband and our friend climbed over mounds of debris made out of boats and destroyed homes that had been washed off of their foundations. There they found it. The top floor of our town house. 100 yards or so away from where it belonged. They made their way inside and everything was perfectly intact. […]
