The Last House Standing
When Hurricane Michael slammed into Mexico Beach, Florida, on October 10, 2018, it arrived as a Category 5 monster — 160-mile-per-hour winds, a storm surge...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9.
When Hurricane Michael slammed into Mexico Beach, Florida, on October 10, 2018, it arrived as a Category 5 monster — 160-mile-per-hour winds, a storm surge that swallowed homes whole. Concrete foundations cracked like eggshells. Block after block lay flattened in the aftermath. But one house stood. Russell King and his nephew Lebron Lackey had built their elevated home to exceed every building code, anchoring it deep into the sand with reinforced steel and poured concrete.…
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