‘Quite the story to tell:’ Florida mom gives birth during peak of Hurricane Nicole

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Hurricane Nicole created a memorable night time for Florida residents because the historic storm battered the state, carved away on the shoreline and collapsed homes into the Atlantic Ocean.

Most individuals selected to hunker down and courageous the storm from the consolation of their houses, nonetheless, Spencer and Elissa Kissell, of Brevard County, have been having a memorable night time of their very own as they headed to Well being First’s Holmes Regional Medical Heart to present delivery to a child boy.

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Elissa Kissel was 9 months pregnant and scheduled to have a C-section on Nov.15, however child Asher determined to return sooner than anticipated, no matter what Mom Nature had deliberate.

“My contractions began getting stronger and I hoped and wishing we might wait out the storm so long as potential,” Kissell mentioned.

At 1:30 a.m. Thursday, Spencer and Elissa strapped their sleeping daughter into the backseat of their automobile and headed to drop her off at her grandparent’s home through the peak of Hurricane Nicole.

“The drive was a bit of nerve-racking,” Spencer Kissel mentioned. “I had a screaming spouse within the entrance seat, our daughter within the backseat making an attempt to sleep, and (I used to be) simply making an attempt to get to grandparent’s home to drop her off after which head to Well being First’s Holmes Regional Medical Heart.”

Simply north of the Kissells, a lot of Volusia County, together with Daytona Seaside Shores, Wilbur-By-The-Sea and New Smyrna Seaside, was little by little crumbling away into the ocean.

In accordance with Elissa Kissel, her coworkers might need been those to jinx child Asher into the world earlier than his deliberate due date.

“I mentioned to them to not say that and positive sufficient he did come through the hurricane,” Kissell mentioned. “However we’re going to have fairly the story to inform him sooner or later.”

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