Families in Florida are picking up the pieces after Hurricane Ian ravaged the state this week.
When the family opened their door, 3 to 4 feet of water came in and they were met with howling winds, she recalled.
“The water, we were being moved left and right, and we sometimes lost our grip but we were able to grab onto each other once again,” Maribel said. “And we got to that, thank God, two-story structure and we went to a laundry and we were there for five hours with panic because the water kept coming up and kept coming up.”“It was really really ugly, so horrible. The house almost fell. It opened up, the foundation almost came up, it all got destroyed and cut,” Maribel said. “We lost everything.
Liliana said at one point she feared for the worse, but “I had to pull myself together and get through it.”
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