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Surviving The Hurricane-Personal Narrative

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Billy was just your ordinary town cop then one day while he was just cruising around town making sure everyone is following the law.While he was doing his job there was an hurricane was happening.He ran out of his car to seek protection he hid in there until it was over.The next day that it was over he went to go see if there was anyone that has survived. When he had to check if there was any survivors he realized he was the only one that survived the hurricane.He didn’t know what to do where to go he felt lost.Billy felt lonely but then finally after a while Billy got a plan.He went to go see what remained of his things he only saw that his clothes so he packed up his clothes and fled to the next city.Once Billy had arrived he found out that

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