My family moved to Florida in 2016 and have been through 6 major hurricanes. We're staying here anyway.

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Tired of winters so cold my kids' cheeks would chap and bleed, my husband and I relocated our family from Maryland to Florida in 2016 and were greeted with Hurricane Matthew before we'd even closed on our house. I still remember taking my kids, who were 6 and 8 at the time, to our family doctor to get established with the practice right in the middle of Matthew prep.