Zeitoun (pg 68- 74) group 6

Kathy stayed in her brother Andy's house along with her children while Zeitoun stayed back home because he thought saving his house was more important. However, he was a little worried when he heard the news that storm Katrina was a "category 5 hurricane"(pg73) When Zeitoun called Kathy in-spite of the bad lines she felt happy and safe when she heard his voice, she also advised him to stay away from the windows. As the condition of the hurricane was getting bad, rains started pouring down. At Zeitoun's house, windows were broken due to hasty winds, there was a leakage in two of his children's room and he heard trees falling down but he managed to fix it with garbage cans and other things that he thought would be useful to protect his house. On the other hand, Zeitoun still walked outside in that threatening weather to get a glimpse of what was happening, he saw a man who had a canoe in his hand and he purchased it for seventy-five dollars on the spot, thinking to himself that it would be useful if the conditions get worse. He also assumed that if the storm breaks out to its fullest the condition would become worse than he expected. Knowing his house was in danger he fell asleep thinking to himself that some big breakage will wake him up.  As a reader I feel that staying back home during catergory 5 hurricane wasn't a brilliant idea and life is more important than anything. As we all "prevention is better than cure" Zeitoun should have acted smart in this type of a situation.