Huricane Opal
I was there for Opal in 1994. It struck the town where I lived and went to college. I was living in an apartment, with some friends. When the power went out my husband (then my boyfriend), drove through a blackout to my parents house to wait out the storm. Good thing we did, because a tree had fallen on our duplex. The apartment next door had extensive water damage from where the tree had broken the roof and the storm had come in. When we went back to the apartment the next day, we had to turn around several times, because the paths we were trying to take to get to it had been blocked by fallen trees. It was a wreck everywhere! I lived in Orlando for 9 years and the first hurricane I witness happens when I move to Alabama! Go figure.
