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Sometimes miracles happen even during a hurricane.

For any of you who don't know, I live in south west Florida. We were recently hit by hurricane Ian. A lady we go to church with was pregnant. Her and her husband were planning to stay home and ride it out. She was kind of happy for the distraction of the hurricane as her due date was approaching. Something to take her mind off the pregnancy. On the day of the hurricane just as it was starting God had other plans for her. Her water broke and it was time! Her husband loaded her into the car and off they went. She was to far along to make it to the hospital they had planned on, but fortunately there was a brand new hospital half way to the one she had planned on using. She was frantically praying that she didn't give birth on the side of the highway in a hurricane. They wheeled into the new hospital, which had just opened six months prior and had been built to the latest hurricane standards. The staff rushed out with a wheelchair and barley got her to the delivery suite when out he came. They were the last people admitted to the hospital before the doors were closed and locked as Ian bore down on them. Since the hospital had been built to the latest hurricane standards they had a birdseye view of it with all of it's destruction. When Ian finally passed the hospital finally discharged them so they could go home. Now remember back in the beginning where they had planned to ride out hurricane Ian at home? When they got home all of the windows had blown in. The ceiling had collapsed and Ian had a free hand at raining in the house. The house is trashed. The structure is concrete block and in good shape, but the rest of the house will have to be gutted and rebuilt. Ladies could you imagine being late along in your pregnancy and being in the house with the windows blowing in and the ceiling collapsing on you? God is great! He knew that was going to happen and he got them out of there just in time. Praise be to God 🙏
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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
I don’t know what people were thinking that they could ride it out. Watched a video several times that a woman took as waves were crashing around her home and then the water broke a window and came in and all the possessions were floating around in the house. Yikes.
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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Stereoguy OMG people laughing at anyone leaving due to an approaching hurricane. I would have to question their sanity at that point. You have an RV and a perfect way to leave. Reminds me of when the tornado sirens were going off one afternoon and I got my purse and went to my car to go to a shelter. My upstairs neighbor was on his balcony watching the clouds and sky and just hooted with laughter saying “there’s another one” as though I was a coward. The storm ended up going north as it often does but it dropped an F-5 tornado that was very wide all the way from Bridge Creek through Moore and South Oklahoma City. The damage was devastating stripping bark off of the tree stumps that remained and destroying a huge amount of homes. A week or two later we were getting storm clouds and I took a bag of trash to the dumpster and this same guy was up on the balcony again and says to me “I wonder where these clouds came from all of a sudden?” as though he was getting anxious about it.
That heavily pregnant woman thinking she could ride out a hurricane was not thinking of the baby. This situation could have ended tragically.
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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Stereoguy if you are going to live in Florida have a back-up plan.
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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@Stereoguy Have you gotten to do everything you were planning to see and do?
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