User blog:Ishimura Elite/I COULD LIVE

I AM SUPER ALIVE.

Came super close, though.

The storm decided to wobble just a little bit further off the coast when it passed by my place. It could've been a lot worse. A LOT worse. If it was any closer, I wouldn't have a home anymore. The winds got so strong it took an entire hotel's side down. You can see into the rooms from the side. Gas station awnings are flipped over or torn to shreds. Road signs are on the ground, and so are trees, if they aren't in houses. Some house roofs are just gone. A1A, a road going northbound, has an entire lane that's gone. The sand underneath it was pulled out by the storm and the asphalt just collapsed underneath it. There's a ton of damage, millions of dollars worth. But the good news is that at most only 10 people died, last time I checked. My home isn't damaged, though the water did get up to the front door and a tree fell on its roof, though didn't actually put a hole through it, thank fuck. But, yeah, like I said, it was a category 4, and had it been closer, there was a real good chance that I'd be gone, but it decided to pull just a little bit outwards. You can see the hurricane path when it passes Daytona Beach, and you can see where it pulls back out eastward just as it passes us.

All in all, everyone's fine, but we couldn't have cut it any closer. It came really close to being a mass murderer. If it had been closer, the hotels would be in the ocean, and so would our house and miles inland. Picture New Orleans after Katrina. Could've been that.

But I'm okay. I'm currently going off my phone's data since we don't have internet. We do have power and water and I finally have phone service again, so from 11:21 pm my time it shouldn't take too much longer for them to fix the internet.

But, yeah. Close shave.