An Ocean Apart: Puerto Rico and Penn
The thing about living away from home while your family is facing a natural disaster is that your mind is in two different places. For days before Hurricane Irma, all of my newsfeed on Facebook and Twitter, all of the texts I got on WhatsApp and iMessage and all of the news clips I watched told me to stay safe and take precaution. It would take me a few moments to remember that I was 1500 miles away from danger, safe and sound. It would take me another moment for a panic to set in because even though I was safe, many of my loved ones were not, and there was nothing I could do to reassure them that everything was going to be okay.