My family’s place is a couple of miles from this hotel. They returned home today to find a tree on the house, a broken skylight, and quite a bit of water and leaves in their home. Power and water may not be restored for weeks,
This is all still better than the outcome that we all expected. We thought the home would be lost for sure.
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