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Personal Narrative: Leave And Evacuate To Atlanta
It all started on a Tuesday morning on October 4th. The school was buzzing with news about a hurricane that was supposed to be creeping along the coast line and heading towards us. I didn’t really think much of the storm because it didn’t really sound serious. Boy was I wrong! At the end of the school day I was rendered speechless when the principal announced that school was cancelled the rest of the week and there was a mandatory evacuation! When I got home from school it was like a mad house! Leashes were laying around, clothes were thrown around the room, and there were suitcases. My mom and dad decided that we should leave and evacuate to Atlanta because my mom already had to go there for business that weekend anyway. So that Monday morning

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