Iola native survives hurricane

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September 22, 2017 - 12:00 AM

Christy Thompson knows her son Ryan is alive and safe — and now she’s been able to talk to him.

Ryan Thompson, 24, is among the hundreds of displaced Ross University School of Medicine students whose campus took a direct blow from Hurricane Maria on the small Caribbean island of Dominica Monday.

The Category 5 storm has left the island in shambles, “worse than a war zone,” Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit told NBC news. The death toll as of Friday in Dominica was 15.

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