I held my daughter's hand tightly as she related to me how she ran to the shelter, how everyone was squeezed in like sardines and how she shook in fear when the siren went off.
She is bright and capable, and I wondered how she ended up in a shelter.
She knows the water in New Bern will continue to rise, but she doesn't know how she'd get to a shelter if she needed to leave.
Paula Wade, who saw the tornado approaching while she was at work in Moore, told BBC News how she was able to take shelter.
But she said living in a shelter was not how she wanted to live her life, and she quickly tried to find ways to get out.
Luckily, the hot line of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is open for 17 more minutes, until 9 p.m. Next: It starts about bedbugs, then meanders into a discussion of how she has no lights in her kitchen or living room, how she used to live in a homeless shelter, how she owes almost $16,000 to someone.
When Kumail reveals that he will probably have to enter into an arranged marriage, for instance, Emily erupts in shock — "My God, I'm so stupid!" — and you wonder, How sheltered can she be?
"His name was Wally Wise Guy, and he would teach you how to shelter in place," she said.
"I do not know the secret of rain, how it shelters from the sun or whether its mistress is the ocean," Imoinda says as she pledges her affection to Oroonoko.
At the Bronx shelter, Dr. Dehavenon saw how much she had in common with the women she was studying, and how her own experience had motivated her choice of career.
