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Hurricane Harvey Analysis
Hurricane Harvey has left behind a path of destruction and devastation, leaving death, illness and famine it its wake. “...every trailer in the park had been disemboweled except hers [McCrae},” describes reporter Burnett. McCrae describes her horrifying personal experience as “...all of these trailers being destroyed...sounded like big trucks coming...it was loud and windy.” The article reveals a first person view of the hurricane's destruction as it destroyed an entire trailer park and the sound of the hurricane was piercing and windy, sounding like trucks. McCrae survived the mass destruction of hurricane Harvey when her trailer was the only one not destroyed by the boisterous storm.
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