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The 2005 Hurricane Season was very active, and most of this story takes place then, but to grasp the full story, we must first revisit 2003 & 2004. For this story, we will use a fictional character named Bob Goodson.
Now Bob lived in the state of North Carolina in a nice expensive home right next to the north facing beaches on the Neuse River. But in 2003 Hurricane Isabel rolled ashore with winds of 100 miles per hour sustained, and along with her came a massive storm surge which destroyed everything in its path. Bob and his wife, Mary, lived in the house alone, both of their children were grown and gone, one, Phil, went to UNC at Ashville to study meteorology, then moved to Gulfport, Mississippi to become a Meteorologist for one of the cable stations down there, while the other, Kristina, just moved to Florida to study music and, on the side, became part of a news crew. Well Bob and his wife heard that the surge during Isabel could be bad, but they thought, oh, she’s only a weak Category 2 hurricane, so she won’t be that bad. The next morning they woke up to fine conditions outside getting progressively worse every minute, and they were still several hours from the eye and eyewall!!! The water had gone from 1-2 feet above normal to 5-6 feet above normal. But Bob and his wife still weren’t that concerned about it, they just figured the water would rise another foot or so, and be in the front yard, but that would be it, the same as they see every time a system like Isabel hits. Well the eyewall started coming ashore, and the winds never got to terribly high, no real hurricane force winds hit, only sustained in the 60’s with gusts to 80 miles per hour. But this part of the storm had something Bob and Mary hadn’t seen before, it may have been weak, but the storm surge kept rising extremely fast, soon reaching 8 feet above normal and now it was lapping at the door. An hour later the surge had reached its peak, at 11 feet, the surge broke the door down

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and started coming in the house, filling the house really quick, forcing Bob and Mary to the second story of the house. Then the house started to collapse around them, so they proceeded to a window and climbed into a tree while watching their beautiful house fall into the water and be swept into the Neuse River and Pamlico Sound. They entered the eye, and the rain briefly stopped, so Bob and Mary got to see the carnage Isabel had wrought so far. After the backside finally came thru, the water slowly receded and they got down out of the tree, only to find the surge left one picture book behind, otherwise the foundation was pretty much swept clean. After that, in October 2003, they moved to Florida to live with their daughter, Kristina, while their house was being assessed and rebuilt, which would take over two years. The spring and most of the summer of 2004 passed uneventful, but then on July 31, things began to change, the first Tropical Depression of the 2004 Hurricane Season had formed and it would become Hurricane Alex, bound to affect their part of North Carolina. The Hurricane set back Bob’s date to begin moving into his new house by two weeks. Then Charley would form and hit Florida. Kristina wasn’t a fool, and when she bought a house, it was inland, and she bought every kind of insurance she could get for it. But Charley did her in, and her nice home got damaged, so the three of them lived in a hotel room for a couple of months while her home was being repaired, but during those couple of months, Frances hit, pushing the date back. Then they just got back into the home when Jeanne hit and completely destroyed her home. So, since it would be a year before she could move back into her house, the three of them moved in with Phil in Gulfport, Mississippi. The winter of 2005 brought about snow around Christmas time to parts of the south, including Phil’s house!!! His parents thought to themselves, what coolness.

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