At 3.37pm (EST) Hurricane Maisie, heading on a course that would take her fifty miles south of Key West, changed direction.

I approached Seven Mile Bridge on Interstate 1, destination Miami, with No Name Key passing by underneath me, unseen and unseeing, when...

Moving south west, Maisie hit land ten miles north of Marathon, wreaking havoc and mayhem along the Keys.

Travelling at an ungainly 30MPH into the worst of her fury, I little realised the danger building.

The hurricane ploughed a furrow along interstate 1, ripping and tearing with unyielding teeth as it went.

My tormented SUV reared like a bucking bronco, then the waves flung it across the highway, flipped it over the parapet and down to the island below...