The hurricane was 3 hours from landfall. My parents locked me out in the rain for “talking back to him at dinner.” I watched them seal the door through the window. An hour later, a black limo pulled up. My billionaire grandma stepped out. She saw me outside, looked at the house and said 1 words: “Demolish.” – News

was named Marin. She had been a category 2 when she crossed the outer islands. And by the time she turned northwest toward the coast, she was a four.

The weather service issued a mandatory evacuation for the barrier islands and a voluntary evacuation for our part of the county, which meant that people with somewhere to go were already gone, and people continue reading …