What was the most surreal thing that happened in your hometown?

Hurricane Hugo, first shots of civil war, the horrific church shooting in 2015, halfway underwater in 2016

Very recently, in the last week, a house fire killed all 7 children of a Syrian refugee family. The mother is a live and the father is hanging on for dear life in hospital but it doesn't look good. They had escaped war, made it here only to be hit with this. Unimaginable.

I'm sure theres a few more but nothing like some other cities. In 1917 we had the largest man-made explosion at that time. 2000 dead, 9000 injured. But since I wasn't alive at that time it seems like the stuff of fantasy, you know?

A shooting at our high school. My sister was a junior. I will never, ever forget the feeling that hit me when I read “shooting at the high school” that morning.