“A hurricane sounds like a lot of locomotives. You can write that down and put it in the Bible.  FEMA is coming tomorrow. I hope they give me a place to stay and help rebuild my house. Do you want to buy this? I will sell it to you cheap. I grew up in this house and my daddy worked at the fire station across the streets I have been sleeping in the bedroom in the back that wasn’t destroyed and it is good to have someone to talk to. I was remodeling my house before the hurricane came and now it is all gone. The stove was new. It knocked the windows out of my car, too. I can’t cry about  this, what can I say? This is the kind of shit you see on TV.  I don’t understand how the fish tank survived. I am taking it with me for the rest of my life and burying it with me. It is a $3,000 fish tank and I haven’t used it yet. I was remodeling my house and it was going to go in the living room. Now it is going to be my showcase piece and the prettiest thing in my house.”

(Hurricane Micheal survivor, Lynn Haven, Florida)