After one hurricane, I was trapped in my house for a couple weeks. My family didn’t live near a city at the time, and the roads and power lines were so flooded and damaged, that no one came out to repair them for weeks on end. We had no power, and our yard, all flat, was covered in several inches of rainwater for almost the whole time.

We got a generator to make sure none of the food in the freezer went bad, and cooked on a barbeque in rainboots, since we couldn’t use the kitchen. I was homeschooled, so since my mom was home, she just kept going on like normal. We were on an island in the middle of water and grass as far as we could see, and I was sat there doing long division.