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Fearing the hurricane, the family car parks in the living room for protection.
WATCH Florida Woman Finds single parking place for his car at the approach of the hurricane.
While Matthew hurricane approached the coast of Florida, bringing with it dangerous winds and flooding, a couple in Miami took things in hand when it came to the protection of their car, they put it in their living room.
Adriana and her fiance, Gary, were bracing for the worst Thursday, as the Miami-Dade County has canceled school for the rest of the week and officials urged residents to evacuate Adriana, a widow aged 55 who lives in a condo in Miami, planned to ride out the storm with Gary, also widowed, and her teenage daughter in his house further south in the city.
But Adriana knew he wouldn t up to his Toyota Venza in the garage for a car of Gary Worried that already housed his vehicle to leave Adriana is virtually brand new silver sedan outdoors in potentially dangerous time, Gary came with a pretty wild idea.
He wanted to put my car in a safe place, says Adriana, who declined to give his last name for privacy reasons.
Miami resident Adriana wanted to protect his car from Hurricane Matthew as it approached the coast of Florida, but with no place in his garage a car, the boyfriend of Adriana decided to put his car in the lounge, 6 October 2016.
Gary removed the sliding glass doors leading into the living room to the back of his house and drove the car Adriana in the backyard Adriana guided his fiance outside as he drove his car up two steel ramps and through the opening in the Gary's 17 room, daughter, Sofia Andrea, helped guide his father inside the house as well.
Adriana told ABC News that they had to move furniture in the room to adapt the vehicle.
It was a bit crazy, but it worked perfectly, she says with a laugh teamwork.
The family released photos of the car Adriana on social media to show their friends and to their surprise, the photos went viral images were retweeted on Twitter tens of thousands of times.
I was just trying to protect his car, said Gary, 67, who also declined to give his last name for privacy reasons.
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Fortunately, the Miami-Dade County was spared the worst of the Mayor Carlos Gimenez storm canceled the tropical storm warning Thursday night.
A 2 to m and Friday, the National Hurricane Center downgraded the storm to a Category 3 hurricane with winds of 120 miles per hour that followed close to land after leaving a trail of destruction in the Caribbean.
The good news for the county of Miami-Dade is the worst of the storm will be over at midnight Gimenez told reporters Thursday.
However, officials still call the hurricane storm extremely dangerous Matthew pummeled the coast of Florida this morning with powerful winds and potentially devastating storms and torrential rain The National Weather Service said extreme wind warning for the Brevard County that western eyewall of the storm brushed by Cape Canaveral, producing wind gusts exceeding 100 mph.
More than 1 5 million Floridians have received the order to evacuate about 20,000 are currently in shelters and hundreds of thousands of homes in the Sunshine State are without power, according to Gov. Rick Scott.
A major hurricane has not hit Florida for over a decade.
Miami resident Adriana wanted to protect his car from Hurricane Matthew as it approached the coast of Florida, but with no place in his garage a car, the boyfriend of Adriana decided to put his car in the lounge, 6 October 2016.
In Miami, this morning, Gary and Adriana said the sky was cloudy and the temperature was in the low 80s with his parked vehicle still in the house, Gary had to drive to work Adriana.
Fortunately, we are safe The hurricane struck Miami didn t, Adriana told ABC News But we're going to need more time to take the car out of the family room.
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