![]() ![]() ![]() During the height of the storm, they could hear the 115 mph winds thrashing the side of their house along with debris blown by winds. Poulin said he installed hurricane shutters on his windows, filled up the gas tank on his vehicle, and prepared several meals in advance of the storm’s arrival. Living through Maine’s historic ice storm of 1998 and losing power for 18 days prepared them for finding themselves in the path of hurricane Ian, Tom Poulin said. Priscilla Flanagan grew up in Clinton and attended the University of Maine. Snyder said her parents were prepared, but the storm was one of the biggest they’ve seen since moving to Florida about 10 years ago from Nashua, New Hampshire. Ian had been reduced to a tropical storm by Thursday morning, but it regained hurricane strength as it headed toward South Carolina Thursday night. The storm made landfall Wednesday in southwest Florida and forecasters were still warning of destructive flooding Thursday. Snyder’s parents, Chris and Priscilla Flanagan, are among the millions of Floridians hit by the hurricane, which has inflicted widespread damage and power outages. “But it’s still tough to not be able to call my mom to talk to her and know how things are going down there.” “I feel better now,” Snyder, a visiting associate professor of psychology at Bates, said in a phone interview Thursday after finally getting a text from her mom, who used a neighbor’s phone to let her daughter know they were OK despite the lack of cell service. ![]()
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