That eye would break the record for the lowest pressure recorded for an Atlantic hurricane that didn't reach Category 5, at 919 millibars, until Hurricane Opal in 1995 (National Weather Service). When the wind, rain and debris calmed down, my father, along with my grandmother and most of the neighborhood, decided to go outside and look around. It didn't last long: thirty years later, he estimates about 15 minutes at most. It was creepy and disturbing, as he described it: “The lighting was all wrong, it was like a scene from a horror movie. I was waiting for the guy in the mask to pop out. They could see the debris that had been thrown about and the storms in the distance. Soon the wind began to pick up again and everyone hurried back
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