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Saturday: Very early in the morning; 3 a.m. My sister wakes me up says she smells a strange smell. I smell it also as I am kinda of lathargic. Open up the room door and hear an alarm. My sister starts freaking out, and I know that I can't panic. I go to the stairwells, even though the elevators were working on generator power. I open the door to the stairwell and am immediately greeted with tropical storm force winds. I am telling to my self, "this isn't good, this is really bad." Then the alarm is much louder. It's a fire alarm. My knees start shaking. Monica goes to back to the room. I grab a flashlight to investigate. I find that the fire alarm is on the second floor down to the lobby. It doesn't smell like smoke, but natural gas. I go with caution, but if the building is in danger I need some info. Go to the floor above the lobby and look down at the front desk from above. You can tell something is wrong. I hear bits and peices about something collapsing. I try to imagine some water getting into a room and the cieling collapsing on a bed. I couldn't imagine what I actually found out happened. I go down to the lobby grab some glowsticks to light up the room, to what I am sure is going to be an eventful night.
5 a.m: Hotel employees start knocking on doors saying grab what you can, the building isn't safe. Throw computer in bag with cell phone and rain jacket and head to hotel restaurant adjacent to the lobby with the rest of the family. The lobby is VERY windy. The sliding doors to the outisde are open, but the wind is coming from somewhere else. We learn that they are going to bus us across the street to a different hotel. This is the right when the storm is directly above us!!!! Needless to say a few hotel patrons needed some convincing that they needed to leave. Get bussed accross to the other hotel with police escort. Firetrucks start arriving at the old hotel. New hotel is a Double Tree. All the Sheraton patrons get forcced into confrence rooms with no lights. I pass out and wake up around noon.