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Hurricane Irma 

September 10, 2017

Been a really crazy past couple of months, beginning with the immense disruption of life caused by Irma, which passed over us in Fort Myers, FL as a strong category 2 hurricane. Many trees down and massive flooding from rainfall as we got no storm surge being 3 miles inland. Out of power for an entire week, it took another 2 weeks after to get back to normal. As of today, November 12, there is still a ton of debris neatly lining our neighborhood's curbsides waiting to be picked up.

We started car preparation with swapping the carbon fiber hood from my P-type onto the L-type, as the P-type was to wait out the storm outside and the L-type got to hide safely in the garage.

We spent 2 1/2 hours at the Shell gas station nearby waiting for the fuel tanker to refuel the station so we could fill up both cars. The tanker had been stuck in traffic near Tampa most of the day.

Cars in their final positions in the garage and on the side of the house.

Taken during the eye of Irma. The tree that fell on my car caused minimal damage.

Added two more dents to my already destroyed driver's side door.

The majority of the next week was spent driving through flood water and waiting in extremely long lines as power was very limited and we craved hot food after days of  room temperature canned.

From my driveway to my mom's, the neighborhoods were almost unrecognizable. Irma changed the landscape almost everywhere very drastically.