Kassy

A fire could start.

We need to get out of here.

Yeah, so we couldn't exit through the front door because there was a giant tree.

So we had to pick our way across the broken glass down to the basement stairs.

And that's actually where we were staying.

Our bedroom is down in the basement, our guest room.

And so in the dark, we were just...

frantically gathering extra clothes and rain jackets and our passports just in case there was a fire.

Um, and then quickly we made it outside in the pouring down rain.

And, um,

Very thankfully, my grandmother lives five minutes from my parents' house.

So we made our way over there and we ended up staying in her house for the last few days of our trip.

But it was insane.

Exactly.

Yeah.

So it turns out that before that summer, there was a drought and the earth was really, really dry.

And then the entire time that we were gone at the beach for two weeks, there was just intense rainstorm after rainstorm.

And because of that

drought followed by massive rain the ground just couldn't handle it it couldn't absorb it all and the roots of all the trees in the area have loosened and so um ever since

That summer, trees have been falling down all across the area.