It was 4 a.m. Wednesday local time in Port Charlotte, Sarasota, Florida when pregnant Kenzie Luellen’s water broke and she went into labor. At the same time, Hurricane Milton, which left behind at least 15 dead, had already begun to hit the area.

After nearly 4 hours of contractions at home, Kenzie, Bennett’s husband and her mother started for Sarasota Memorial Hospital. They had called the day before to request admission a day early because of the impending disaster, but the officials refused saying “the hospital does not function as a shelteryou must come when the labor begins.’

On the nearly deserted road to the hospital, “my mom was driving in the middle of a storm and we were trying to be as careful as possible,” the now happy new mom told NBC.

“There weren’t really many people on the streets because it was very windy outside and it was raining a lot,” Kenzi described the moments of anguish.

Finally, in the storm and storm, they arrived at the hospital, while the hurricane was already uprooting trees outside their window.

“I was very scared. If I didn’t have the doctors and nurses, it would have been much worse,” said the young woman who eventually had to undergo a caesarean section.

Finally, a few hours later, Kenzie gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Dewey Lester Bennett 4th, who was born weighing 3.6 kg.

On the same night, in similar circumstances, six more babies were born in the city’s two hospitals, which doctors described as “small miracles”.