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For more than 40 hours they battled Mother Nature without food or sleep as the category 5 hurricane spun overhead.
“When you hear a lion roaring outside, it’s like, ‘I’m coming for you.’ It was that kind of wind,” said his wife, Madna. “We had to sit down in the bathtub, which was the only safe place for me and the children. We sat there for hours while they fought for that last window. They said if they let the last window go, the whole house would come down. The roof was already practically gone.”
As they fought, the water around them rose - by 15, 16, 18 feet.
It was starting to feel like a losing battle.
“I remember telling them, ‘Come in the bathroom and let’s die together,’” Madna said. “A couple minutes later, I saw a little sunshine. That was after the eye passed. We managed to come out, but there was nowhere to go. Everything was water and all the houses were down.”