![]() ![]() What some thought would bring little more than heavy rain ended up obliterating businesses, homes and entire towns. Hurricane Michael slammed into the Florida panhandle on Wednesday, October 10 as a catastrophic Category 4, leaving 45 dead in its wake-35 from Florida alone. But Lewis didn’t return until Saturday, October 13, and when she did, her studio was irreparable. By Thursday, she planned to be back at her studio teaching classes and running Nutcracker rehearsals. She only packed enough clothes to last her a few days. Lewis opted to close the studio and evacuate to Georgia. But what started as an irksome Category 1 hurricane swelled into a life-threatening beast in less than two days. She pulled in chairs and plants from the patio of her studio and boarded up her home on the beach. As the storm’s intensity strengthened, Lewis started to make the usual preparations. “I headed home thinking it was going to be a normal day,” she says. She joked that the director’s departure was well-timed considering the storm swirling in the Gulf of Mexico. ![]() The morning of October 8, Lewis dropped off the Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker audition director at the airport. Wendy Lewis, owner of Studio by the Sea in Panama City Beach, Florida, thought as most Floridians do before a hurricane. ![]()
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