When British Virgin Islands solicitor Dan Wise and his family hunkered down in their two-story home to wait for Hurricane Irma, they never imagined the surreal story of survival that would follow.

After hours of wind and rain and the loss of a window, they thought the storm was over when the sky cleared over their home in the British Virgin Islands. They went outside and chatted with neighbors, but soon the winds picked up and they ran back inside, realizing the clear skies and calm was merely temporary—the eye of the storm.

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