Hurricane Helene was a very powerful category 4 hurricane that impacted Florida, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Winds reached 140 miles per hour. Storm surge caused flooding which destroyed homes and businesses across the coasts.
Here our reporters share their experiences with the storm.
So on Thursday, the 26th, around 5 p.m., the hurricane started to hit us. About 1 hour later we lost power and had no air conditioning, or any lights. Later on that night my father came to the kitchen to tell my family that we were going to leave our house to evacuate to Orlando the next morning. We left the next day about 10 a.m. When we came home, we had flooding in the house! But we are taking care of it. - Ryleigh Brady, 4th grade
The day the hurricane was coming, my family and I went to work and school. When we came back my mom went to the store and bought a lot of food for the hurricane. My sister Grace and I were watching a movie in her room. While my family and I were doing our things the power went out like 5 to 10 times! In the middle of the storm our back living room window was leaking! Then my mom and dad had to go outside and tried to fix it but they couldn't. The next day after the storm, my mom and I woke up early. My neighbors walked over to our house and we drove to help people. - Vivienne Rodriguez, 4th grade.
My cousin's friend had their house flooded, everything washed away, so we opened our guest house to them to stay until their house gets fixed. My friend's house got three and a half feet of water. Their washer locked so they lost their clothes and she said, "My refrigerator looked like a tornado ate all the food." Hopefully everyone impacted can rebuild their homes safely and quickly. - Jackie Meismann, 7th grade.
At first it was just like a normal storm, then the wind speed was up very fast. It was crazy! My two siblings and I were having a hurricane party. We all three slept in the same bed, but the AC went out, and it was so hot! Luckily my dad came in with a fan and saved the day. We all fell asleep. Then the next morning my basement was flooding and the AC was still off. Fortunately, my dad brought his friends from work and they started to get all of the water out of my basement. - Cohen Housh, 5th grade
No comments:
Post a Comment