GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – “It’s not an easy thing to just, you know, go about life.”
The impact of Hurricane Irma is on the heart and mind of a Saint Norbert College student, whose parents, siblings and other family members live in Naples, Florida.
Andrew LeMay says they’re all hunkered down in the house he grew up in.
“Things are boarded up. There’s sandbags where they need them. It just became a waiting game.”
LeMay says his place is about 4 miles from the shoreline and was built to withstand hurricane winds.
“The have a generator. They’ve got food for, between all the people that they’re with, at least a week….if not more.”
LeMay says his parents thought about evacuation. But the traffic was so heavy and gas supplies were questionable at best.
“By the time they came out with the release that the storm was coming our way, it was just not very feasible to get far enough north to get where it was worth it to pack up and leave everything behind.”
For now, LeMay has been able to maintain regular contact with his family.
But trying to focus on his studies and be part of the Saint Norbert College cross country team is hard to do with all that’s happening back home in Florida.
