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When Daisy was 5 she had a firsthand account. Daisy had a firsthand account in Hurricane Harvey. When it started to form they didn’t know but it started to hit land already they could not get out. It started to flood inside their house so they had to go to the attic or roof. They decided to go to the roof but there was know way out because they didn’t have something to get through the roof.So Daisy’s mom went to the kitchen but she could not get a knife because there was a water mocosin. That had to go to the very hot attic. The mom forgot that she always keeps a pocket knife in her jeans so she cut a hole in the wall for air After that it was over and somebody came and saved them.

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