Braving Home Pa Book

This is a quirky little book that focus on a series of fiercely independent individuals (all in different locations including Alaska, Hawaii, and the South), who resist leaving their homes, and, quite literally, remain the last man or woman standing. Included are the stories of: a man who who lived out of his carport after the Hurricane rather than dessert his home (even though his town was officially evacuated); a woman in California whose family doesn't leave during wild fires, but instead stays to fight the fires using wetted down flour sacks; a man who returns to his old neighborhood in Hawaii that is surrounded by lava. But the story I enjoyed the most was of a woman who lives in an apartment building in an Alaskan town where the wind creates such a fierce wind tunnel that residents' doors are often suctioned shut and they can't leave their apartments. These folks seemed to live out an almost mythic American spirit of ingenuity and stick-to-it-iveness.