This hurricane definetly took us by surprise, I think most of us thought that it would be arriving at our shores at about a 1 or a 2 category but that was definetly not the case, it hit us at a strong category 3 (125 MPH winds). So 2+ million residents in the South Florida area were left without power for almost a week, as I write this there are still a number of people without power.
Perhaps the strangest thing about this whole episode is how much my neighborhood and pretty much most of my area has changed visually. So many trees have been either stripped of their foliage or have been knocked down that many landmarks and familiar scenes of daily life change in a matter of a day, it’s a quite odd experience and really has to be experience to be fully understood.