Dropping Off the Daughters, in the Path of Hurricane Irma
Central Florida
September 4-5, 2017
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For the second autumn in a row, we drove across the country
and delivered daughters (two this time!) to Disney World,
for a semester in the college program.
This time we managed to drop them off right in the path of
an approaching hurricane -- Irma, one of the largest hurricanes
ever recorded, though dwarfed in 2017's disaster season by
the damage caused by other storms like Harvey in Houston
(whose northern remnants we drove through one night crossing
Arkansas), and Maria, which devestated Puerto Rico. (Not to
mention the Sonoma and Napa wildfires that wreaked havoc on
our home town.) The shelves were already bare as we helped
them stock up on food for their dorm suites, and we felt a
little uneasy flying away and leaving them to brave the storm
without us. But they took it with ease, and even had some
fun during the hurricane parties, I think.
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