Like it or not, once the hurricane is on a collision path with you and your neighborhood and your city, normal life is disrupted, and sometimes totally ripped apart.
Difficult to prepare for, difficult to escape; tornadoes are responsible for billions of dollars worth of damages and hundreds of deaths a year, often leaving behind apocalyptic aftermaths.
Hurricane Agnesstranded my wife and me for two days in 1972;Gloriawas an uninvited guest at our niece’s wedding in ’85;Isabelleft us without power for eight days in 2003, andFayturned our subdivision into an archipelago in 2008. Matthew was different.