“Just after eleven o'clock, the front end of the storm arrived at the Zeitoun's house. The sky was brutal grey, the winds swirling and cool. Rain came in sheets. Every half hour brought an escalation in the mayhem outside. At midnight the power went out. The leaks began at about two or three…When he next checked, it was four o'clock in the morning. He hadn't stopped moving in five hours. If the damage continued at this pace, it would be worse than he had predicted. And the real storm hadn't come yet.”
- Dave Eggers
Zeitoun,p.81-82
