My experience during Irma should terrify everyone. These superstorms are becoming the new norm.
Two years ago, my husband and I found ourselves tied to our mattress, cowering in terror on our shower floor, as 178 mph winds tore apart our hurricane-proof home for eight hours.
Irma broke several records, becoming the world's longest-lasting Category 5 hurricane, the strongest open-Atlantic hurricane and the strongest hurricane ever to strike land in the Caribbean. She was in a class of her own—or so we thought at the time. After a week of subsisting on dwindling supplies in a post-apocalyptic setting, my husband and I joined the first wave of U.S. evacuees to Puerto Rico, which welcomed with open arms thousands of Irma refugees daily, before meeting its own devastation weeks later at the hands of Maria.
And then, from the abnormally warm Atlantic waters, festered Dorian—another stealthy mutant, morphing at the last minute to wreak catastrophic destruction on the Bahamas days ago. To our horror, Dorian's ferocity surpassed Irma's, tying with the Labor Day Hurricane of 1935 as the
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