It was a minor hurricane that developed and strengthened quicker than any previous tropical storm in recorded history before making landfall. The storm formed on September 12, 2007, inside the northern Gulf of Mexico, and quickly strengthened before striking High Island, Texas, sustained winds of around 90 mph (145 km/h) late on September 13. I felt a chilly shudder run down my spine. The wind was roaring, and the trees’ leaves were rustling. I was stranded outside by myself. Children and parents are weeping in distressful and forlorn tones all around the place. They ran inside to escape the impact of the raging water and wind mass that could be seen to gradually burst the banks, and they heard the whoosh of the wave as they crashed.
I would have seen the storm wreaking havoc on the town ahead of me in the distance. I could perhaps hear the gentle pitter-patter of hail as it fell to the ground. It was inevitable. The sky began to quake incessantly. I noticed a bolt of lightning ahead of me. I could see my parents were concerned, but I wasn’t. I was just as brave as I could possibly be. I dashed through the downpour, becoming completely saturated. I wouldn’t be deterred by a little rain. The storm was coming closer by the minute. I shut my eyes just as another bolt of lightning struck the sky. For a very long time, thunder rumbled again. Another lightning bolt blasted the heavens. I covered my face from the gale-force gusts.
I took a big breath and stood up. I began to walk, then jogged, and then ran as quickly as I could toward home. I came to a halt quietly when the wind eased down a little, but only for a moment. I couldn’t see anything since the sky was so dark that I couldn’t see in Which I was going. I smelled the familiar scent when the skies cleared a little. The rain was pelting down in torrents. In New York, Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc on our woodland property along the Delaware River.
We gathered the children in the center of the little house, much further away from windows as possible. We lit a few rechargeable batteries LED lighting because the power was off. We had to take refuge and await it out since trees and toppled power lines blocked our roadway, I assume there was still a tornado in additional to the hurricane. We were afraid that the storm was arriving quickly, despite the fact that it would be devastating. The winds became stronger as the storm approached. The wind picked up much more just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse. The electrical wires to our house were torn by falling branches. The circuit protection box blew up. A swarm of enormous conifers descended on us. Because the roads were inaccessible and unsafe, we were forced to stay at home. We didn’t have any running water because we have a personal well using an electric well pump. Meanwhile, we had more than enough clean water in the tank, as well as every single drop we drank was first filtered by our counter-top filtration system. We made to-do lists for whenever the house was repaired as well as the storm was nearly finished.
We are consistently raising our awareness and readiness, as well as refining our procedures, eight years later. Hotel personnel were already performing rescue operations to take guests from their rooms by the time we luckily arrived at the hotel ballroom. They kept track of who was in each hotel room and retrieved them appropriately. We were detained in Cabo for an extra week and the airport was closed. After not hearing from us for several days, our friends and relatives assumed the worst. Rationing of food and water was required. Because all of the roads were washed out, the Mexican military was forced to undertake food drops for the locals. I could write a book on everything that happened that week since my memories are still as vivid in my memory as paint.
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