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<h1>Local Resident&#8217;s &#8216;Hurricane Magnet&#8217; Family Impacted By Harvey, Irma</h1>
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<p>It&#8217;s been an anxious couple of weeks for one Arlington resident who had three family members in the path of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.</p>
<p>Pat Shapiro, who lives in the Leeway Overlee neighborhood, has one son, Josh, in Houston; another son, Aaron, living in Miami; and her 89-year-old mother is a resident of Naples, Fla. All three were impacted to some degree.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like we&#8217;re a hurricane magnet,&#8221; said Shapiro, a 10-year library assistant at an Arlington public library.</p>
<p>Harvey slammed Texas and Louisiana in the United States, leaving more than 300,000 people without power, killing more than <a href="http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2017/09/06/harvey-death-toll-rises-to-70/">60 people</a> and causing billions of dollars in damage.</p>
<p>The still-active although weakened Irma hammered Florida, and has <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/11/us/hurricane-irma-weakens-to-category-1-storm/index.html">caused flooding</a> as far north as Charleston, S.C. and Savannah, Ga. More than 2.6 million homes were <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-power-company-restoration-weeks-irma/story?id=49752024">without power</a> at one stage in Florida.</p>
<p>Shapiro&#8217;s 65th birthday celebrations on August 25 meant Josh was in Arlington when Hurricane Harvey started to batter Houston, and forced him to stay put for a week. Unfortunately, Josh had just closed on a house in Houston the week before. When he returned, it was ruined by flood damage.</p>
<p>Thankfully, Shapiro said he had not moved in any of his furniture or other personal belongings, but the house itself needed to be gutted, and he cannot move in for between nine months and a year while it is repaired.</p>
<p>Josh needed to get to work when he returned to his home in Houston and rip out all the units and floorboards and also drill holes in the walls to let out moisture. And after his real estate agent, who lives nearby, posted on Facebook that he needed help, a group of volunteers intervened.</p>
<p>&#8220;He said all of a sudden, at 9:30 a.m., all these trucks and cars pull up and a group of about 30 people walked in his house and said, &#8216;We&#8217;re here to help,'&#8221; Shapiro said. &#8220;They worked until 9:30 p.m., they ripped out all the floors, they helped him get the carpet out, they helped him put holes in the walls because it had to start drying. He was flabbergasted.&#8221;</p>
<p>Shapiro&#8217;s other son, Aaron, escaped the worst of the storm. His condo building in the Brickell neighborhood of Miami managed to keep its power on, after management said they would be turning off the elevators and air conditioning and locking the doors to prepare for Hurricane Irma.</p>
<p>After evacuating his building, Aaron stayed with a friend in the nearby city of Coral Gables, where they lost power and saw significant wind damage to trees. The pair then were preparing to go out and do rescue work once the storm had subsided.</p>
<p>Across the state in Naples, Shapiro&#8217;s 89-year-old mother was put under mandatory evacuation orders from her home, just three blocks from the Gulf of Mexico. Her house, too, escaped the worst of the storm, although she had to move locations twice. She first went to Tallahassee, then went further north into North Carolina to stay with Shapiro&#8217;s sister after Irma&#8217;s path shifted.</p>
<p>Shapiro said that other friends of hers in the Naples area who stayed put had to take emergency shelter due to the high winds.</p>
<p>&#8220;They said it was very scary,&#8221; Shapiro said. &#8220;They said the winds were horrible, and they ended up spending the night in a closet they were so scared, because the wind was so bad.&#8221;</p>
<p>The experience left Shapiro worried for her family&#8217;s safety, but grateful that nothing worse happened to anyone.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was very nerve-wracking,&#8221; she said. &#8220;[It&#8217;s] been a one-two-three whammy. First the Houston thing, which I was terribly worried about, then this hurricane [Irma]. But all in all, my family came through in such good shape compared to so many others.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>Photo No. 1 via Flickr user <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/150411108@N06/36978168152/in/photolist-YkCM6j-XhYTKu-YE62Ex-YwDViM-YwZeoB-Yy9f4k-XbKtHU-XhZVmx-YdqM5c-Ymq3a6-YdmAyW-YjDMVi-XneWwg-YrwcfZ-YmbX3E-XcPJxQ-YhQoN6-XbMnGR-YuXoQP-YamVmJ-YCaVJr-pxGKti-X9wkNd-Y3KRtU-XivJ3m-Yi6fvL-YiHVjf-XQVVZj-YgLQD9-Xiw78o-XWpnBh-Xiw71E-Ynrit5-YjNrkJ-YzoZSt-XkRkAp-XZsSAf-YjP4hU-XjZFZb-YnrNk3-YhGpQN-Yc7Bi5-Xiw7aN-Xiw7c1-XYNk5L-XgRs4Q-YrvHK2-Xiw6UN-YcwvpJ-Xiw7hb">Antti Lipponen</a>, photos <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jill_carlson/37074582465/in/photolist-Yu9VH4-Ye6fCo-XoSfaK-Y32xff-Y1XRxm-XndoqK-YbNrVT-Ye88KV-Ye4WVb-YgANUM-Xdf1Dj-YB884n-YqgjMP-XBDTfm-WWymh6-Y1XRiU-Yf1NmS-X2zaPG-YkMMug-YchHtw-XT3wmw-8w8SKJ-8w5QRT-Yu7BcR-Xf6B4M-Y13rWy-YhAHGk-XY99Mi-WVDdU7-Y1XRod-Y2qtAL-YgkVxB-XJNr5L-WU6cDa-YaTc45-Ygryun-WWZFmu-YhGTJo-XcY5gw-Y2qsNy-Xd4tRN-Xf2H26-XFATRo-XYq3eN-8w65NT-XdnBuh-8w5RwM-8w8ThN-8w97kJ-8w8SYA">No. 2</a> and <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jill_carlson/36881104356/">No. 3</a> via Flickr user Jill Carlson, photo No. 4 via Flickr user <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/coastguardnews/36021442573/in/photolist-WT6iUH-X4brr6-XSTh1W-Xf8WUp-YhAKwc-YaRrL4-YbwrPH-YhALoH-WVDezW-XT1Vgy-X2PkYF-YtKZo6-Xd5WJ3-YcuvY3-Y16qvC-Xndo5p-Y18joy-WNe5Rd-8w97pA-Y9kMkv-YhDnY3-Yc6n3U-Y18jnG-XSZgnu-XndnLt-Y6us6j-Ygxis6-Y18jcb-Y5aWWK-YdG8R3-Xdm3gA-XVfoDx-YtNRoT-YctAqb-XNVyeu-WXLb3j-XT7P3b-Ye4T3a-X1DsbB-XzYBbm-Y5njsD-WXyjaz-WPwaAd-XSWRwt-WU5SuP-WZt45d-Y461cD-WT6oJc-Xe1Cei-WZ56NL">Coast Guard News</a>.</em></p>
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