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Personal Narrative: Hurricane Matthew
After school on Tuesday, my mom and stepdad were still deciding if we should evacuate because of Hurricane Matthew. Later they made a decision “We are going to leave early tomorrow morning.” We were going to go stay at my stepdad’s parents house at Lake Jackson. Everyone woke up at 4:30 except me, I hadn’t packed so I got up at 4:00. I usually snooze about two times but today I adapted to just waking up. My dogs were already up like every other day. My dog Sugar hates being in the car but Bear, my stepbrothers dog, is okay, he just sleeps. Now, almost everyone was up except for my mom, she was still sleeping. Once everyone was awake we left.

Me and my mom had to propel the dogs into the car, they were not happy. I went back to sleep in the car but my mom already had the allusions that I would because while waiting for her I fell asleep on the couch.
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As the day went on more and more people started showing up. Soon enough the hole has was packed including their neighbors house, which my stepbrother’s girlfriend's family were staying in. Around 5 o’clock me and my friend Ella went tubing, but I had to provoke her to go. We had so much fun over the weekend it was an analogy to just being at home on a

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