Others walked through the shelters’ doors after the hurricane had struck, shocked by its ferocity and drenched by the rain. “Matthew caught people off guard,” said Faye Lovell, director of the Lumberton High shelter. They tried the local hurricane shelter, but it didn’t have a crate big enough for GiGi. So, days before Hurricane Florence struck, Hardee took his wife and daughters to a middle school, where there is a backup generator and they would not have to worry about flooding. But as the winds picked up and the rains came down, life in the shelters began to wear on the evacuees.

Source: Washington Post September 15, 2018 00:10 UTC