We'll have to stay below the clouds," shouted Max, "or we won't be able to see anything!" lkemi could not see very far. The sky was dark and the rain was falling heavily. The waves below were dark, too, y showing white when they broke. "This is impossible, she thought to herself "How can we find a little boat in this weather when we don't even know where it is It was as though Max could read her thoughts. Don't worry. We'll find him," he said. And she believed him And as the Manatee began its journey east over the sea, Hurricane Irene was moving west. The hurricane left the broken island of Cuba behind and began to move over the water towards Miami. It brought with it great walls of cloud, heavy rain, and high winds. The great walls of cloud formed circles around the hurricane's eye. he eye was at the center of the hurricane. It was a place of calm and peace. As the storm passed, first came the screaming winds and the biting rains which destroyed everything they blew over. Then, as the eye passed over, the winds and the rain stopped. No wind blew inside the eye, there was bright sunshine and a warm blue sky. You might think that the hurricane had passed until the wall of the hurricane hit from the other side. Sometimes the eye is as little as six kilometers wide, sometimes as big as 60 kilometers wide. The smaller the eye, the faster the winds blow round it. Irene's eye was only 15 kilometers wide, and the winds around the eye were screaming, killing winds of