Hurricane Fran By Randy Mcbrayer

In Wilmington, North Carolina, Mary Wasson, a local resident, recalled an event that happened to her daughter during Hurricane Fran. "The top 35 feet of a tree snapped off and did a somersault in the air over part of our house. It did a 180 in the air." Another story about the hurricane, told by resident Granger Soward, talked about how his backyard got covered in four feet of standing water, with a manatee in the water (“Postcards”). Randy McBrayer, another citizen who experienced this tragic event, shared his story. In 1996, the devastating Hurricane Fran hit South Carolina. McBrayer, a resident of South Carolina, willingly shared his story about his involvement in this event. Hurricane Fran majorly affected the Atlantic coast. In 1996,

Once Randy and his family heard about the hurricane his wife and son, Molly and Kevin, left to go to Columbia, South Carolina. While they had the chance to leave, Randy had to stay behind and work in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. The city’s police station, which he worked for at the time, paid for him to stay and work. Once news of the hurricane started, he had to work twelve-hour shifts at a time, and when he did not work, he slept. Randy’s first job before the hurricane hit was to warn people to leave if they could, and to protect properties from looters. McBrayer recalled one event that he remembered in particular. He told about how he walked through the street and saw a nine x nine pane of glass fly through the air from an air doctor store. He also remembered driving and having his windshield wipers fly off his car due to the amount of wind (McBrayer). Once the hurricane actually hit, all officers got called to the police station to wait out the hurricane. He guessed that the hurricane only took four hours to pass them. Afterwards, Randy didn’t have time to think about how he felt. He had to immediately get back to work. A lot of flooding, wind, and looting occurred due to the hurricane that Randy had to deal