FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. -- First-year Atlanta Falcons defensive coordinator Marquand Manuel, a Miami native who still resides in the city during the offseason, took measures to make certain his family braced for Hurricane Irma.
Manuel said some family members headed to Atlanta on Wednesday. But Manuel, one of 17 children, said any of his siblings remaining in the Miami area know how to brave such a storm.
"All my brothers and sisters, we lived through Hurricane Andrew," Manuel told ESPN, referring to the Category 5 hurricane from 1992 that killed 65 and caused $47.8 billion (in today's dollars) in damage.