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Horrifyingly realistic story about what happens when a major hurricane wipes an entire city off the map—where do the people go? What happens when your whole life suddenly disappears and you are left with nothing? It‘s a stark warning of what the future holds with accelerating climate change. And also another reminder of why I will never, ever live in Florida.

This story starts with a mother evacuating Florida with her college age stepson and two younger children as a massive hurricane heads for Miami. Suddenly their well to do family is separated, has lost access to all cash & credit, and is being bused to a camp for displaced people in Oklahoma. It‘s often a tough story and considers various perspectives as we deal with more extreme weather.

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📷: Luthien exploring this morning

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Solid story about the aftermath of an F6 hurricane that destroys Miami and Huston. The best parts to me were the personal accounts that were interspersed within the story. It reminded me of the format of World War Z.

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Heard about this book in the summer - about a major hurricane that decimates Florida and everyone is put into “camps” across the country. Checked it out of the library two weeks and welp….here comes Ian. While evacuated, I started this book. Probably not the best idea, but it raises some interesting points and is less fiction than I like. This should count as a #spookyread

✨I read lots of good books this summer, the tagged book among them.
✨ Trying to squeeze a little more summer out of September while mentally preparing for fall!
✨ The picture is Frank Lloyd Wrights Graycliff on the shore of Lake Erie, which I toured last week.

This may be the most powerful book I have read this year because of my own personal history with hurricanes in Houston, TX. Our home flooded during Harvey and I will never forget having to walk out of our neighborhood in chest deep water with our three cats and the little we could salvage on an air mattress. So this story hit very close to home and actually helped me further work through the trauma that Harvey caused.

#JulyRecap , 8 books is my usual. My favs were the two in the middle and the tagged book. Saw the Crawdads movie today, very true to the book.

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While not adrenaline-fueled like the synopsis states…it did have a near-apocalyptic feel to it. It started out like it might be action-packed but that only lasted for a short bit. Focusing more on what the shelter/tent-city was like in Oklahoma that the family was bused to. I now know I‘m quite happy I don‘t live near the Ocean. If I did, after listening to this book, I definitely would want a better “bug-out” plan. ⬇⬇⬇

To be fair, I strongly disliked The Gifted School by this author. The Displacements was a surprise and ended up being an excellent read.

As someone who grew up dealing with Hurricanes, the author's descriptions of what a person feels and goes through during a hurricane were so accurate they were frightening.

This book has a little bit of everything- drama, suspense, survival- and it all comes together in an exciting story that I will not forget.

This book was so true to a worst case scenario for a family escaping the first Category 6 hurricane that I had to put it down and catch my breath a few times!

Hurricane Luna makes a turn and heads straight for Miami. Daphne flees with three kids, unable to meet her husband in time. Her purse was left behind with all her cards, phone, and money. Forced into a megashelter in OK, she must try to survive where conmen and drug dealers lurk. Out 7/5/22