Storm surge is truly terrifying.
The worst of the winds that Wilma brought had passed, and I fell asleep on the couch that morning.
My housemate woke me shouting, "there's a surge!" We'd been through one in Georges, but this one was worse.
The water rose to my height (5'3"
before it began to subside. I had the dogs and the cats in the canoe ready to paddle to a neighbor's stilt house. She lost her car. My truck was spared because I'd parked it near a bridge (only high ground in the Keys).
We lost everything in the house. My cats were very annoyed at the canoe episode.
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