Chris Murray pulled out his iPhone on Sunday to video chat with his family in Tampa, Fla., which was about to be hit by one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean.
"I FaceTimed them almost every hour," said Murray, a senior wide receiver at Arkansas State University who went to King Senior High School in the Del Rio section of Tampa. "I thought about it a lot. But I asked my family, and they said they was good.
"So you just gotta think positive and be positive. Don't think negative. Once they said they was good, that's what I went with.