The hurricane occured this many days before the events described in the article.
What is 26?
100
One of the two things the narrator's neighbor's son dragged out of houses.
What is waterlooged sheetrock or insulation?
100
The number of years the narrator had been doing business with the appliance store that wouldn't return his calls.
What is 6?
100
The "best" word on the vocabulary list.
What is CHOICEST?
200
The part of the United States devastated by the hurricane in the story
What is the Gulf Coast?
200
The location where the narrator works.
What is a shipyard?
200
Two of the three things the narrator says homeless people were living in.
What are two of tents, campers, and RVs (recreational vehicles)?
200
The number of people killed in Mississippi as a result of the hurricane.
What is over 220?
200
This word is a synonym for DEBRIS.
What is WRECKAGE?
300
The amount of "sea water, sewage, and God knows what else" deposited in the narrators workplace as a result of the storm.
What is six feet?
300
The number of employees the local Wal-Mart lost.
What is 176?
300
The slogan car dealers were using instead of "super year-end discounts."
What is "low, low, prices"?
300
The narrator treated the wood framing of his home to prevent this.
What is mold growth?
300
The definition of this word is "obvious."
What is APPARENT.
400
The amount of water that flooded the narrator's home.
What is three feet?
400
The lack of employees is so scary, businesses resorted to hiring these kind of crews.
What is are skeleton crews?
400
The number of years the narrator's neighbor had been doing business with her favorite appliance store.
What is 25 years>
400
The per-pound price the narrator paid for ice when he got a 5-pound bag for a dollar.
What is 20 cents?
400
This word means "flooded with water."
What are two of IMMERSED, INUNDATED, and SWAMPED?
500
Two of the four major property losses (damage to houses) people experienced as a result of the hurricane.
What are two of the following: home reduced to...a bare foundation, flooding damage, serious wind damage, and damage from falling trees.
500
If the narrator's son worked an average of 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 2 weeks, and earned $2,016, he earned how much an hour?
What is $12?
500
Three examples of electrical appliances the narrator specified as having been damaged by salt water.
What are (three of) refrigerators, washers, dryers, TVs, computers, and alarm clocks?
500
If the store the narrator ordered his refrigerator from delivers 10 a day, every day of the week, how many days will it take for the narrator (#169 on the list) to get his fridge?
What is 17?
500
The narrator received "this" to get his A/C fixed right away. You might get one sent to an A.P. with less enjoyable results.