{"id":16550,"date":"2017-10-19T16:57:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T16:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/?p=16550"},"modified":"2024-01-30T12:18:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T17:18:35","slug":"hurricane-irma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/hurricane-irma\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact Hurricane Irma Had On An SPC International Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now, many of you have heard or seen the historical catastrophe Hurricane Irma. Hurricane Irma was an impact on our nation; the biggest threat Florida ever had. I personally never been in such situation not knowing what to do or feel as an international student coming from overseas. I was handling it well until my area that I live in turned into a mandatory evacuation. When I heard that, I began to panic not knowing what would happen if I stay. My brother and I started looking for tickets to Texas and unfortunately, every flight was fully booked. It reached to the matter that we started looking for renting a car to drive all the way to Dallas. After hours of looking for tickets online and making phone calls, we gave up and decided to stay at our friend\u2019s house that happens to live in a safe area. For the whole night I was overthinking about what will I do and how am I going to handle this if something happened. I even started thinking about my family, wondering if I\u2019m ever going to see them again if this hurricane hits us.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-16552 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/10\/innout-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/10\/innout-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/10\/innout-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2017\/10\/innout.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>At 6 AM, I decided to look again online for tickets. And surprisingly I found a flight that\u2019s taking off in two hours. And so I booked that flight and with no hesitance, I woke my brother up, told him that I found a flight. We changed our clothes, took our suitcase and gunned through my car. We rushed to the airport and checked in. Thankfully the flight had an hour delay, so I had time to go wash my face at the restroom. My experience with this weather was great and bad. Great? Yeah, because I got the chance to visit my aunt that lives in Dallas, and the chance to eat from a fast food restaurant called \u201cIn-N-Out\u201d that\u2019s only located in California and Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, many of you have heard or seen the historical catastrophe Hurricane Irma. Hurricane Irma was an impact on our nation; the biggest threat Florida ever had. I personally never been in such situation not knowing what to do or feel as an international student coming from overseas. 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