re: Ever been on vacation when a hurricane hit?

When I was a snot nosed kid, my family went to spend a week at my uncle's camp on Bay St. Louis.
3 days in Hurricane Camile was just off the coast. We found a pay phone at a store, called my uncle who was leaving to come help batten down the camp.
As we started doing what we could a friend of my uncle showed up to inform us that my uncle had a stroke while driving and crashed on the way to met us. He was paralyzed for the rest of his life.
We did what we could. But it didn't matter.
We returned a week later and could find nothing left of his camp.