Another Hurricane Week

Can you believe it? Here we go again! I was just listening to the news and hearing about all the flooding in North Carolina. So you know what that means let’s send out emails again to everyone we know who lives in any of the east coast states or the gulf states. Pass along this information and also tell them to check out the other posts listed under the Evacuation and Refuge Category. I did get a note back...

What You Can Do For Hurricane Victims

Now that Gustav has passed we are preparing for Hanna, Ike and Josephine. Yikes! I hope you are all forwarding links to the evacuation and providing refuge posts. As you can see they will be needed by friends and family in many states over just the next week and the hurricane season still has 3 months left to threaten. Yesterday I heard a reporter talking about Hanna affecting Washington DC. He also commented on the...

Seven Steps Week 32

I had always intended that this be a catch-up week since today is Labor Day and in many areas school begins this week. Because of the hurricane in the gulf, Hanna building to hurricane strength off Florida and now Ike forming off Africa, I have one important thing I would like you to do. Please send an email to everyone on your email list and give them the link to this blog. The last several days I have posted...

The Storm of the Century

That is the way the major of New Orleans referred to hurricane Gustav. I hope all of your friends and family have evacuated and are safely on their way to stay with loved ones or in a shelter or hotel safely away from the worst of the storm. Now it is time for those preparing to care for evacuees to get serious about their preparations. You may think this is an easy task but it isn’t. The power may be out...

Evacuation Tips…Gustav is Coming

With hurricanes threatening this week we need to keep preparing and when told to evacuate we need to do so immediately. Yesterday we discussed a few things to do to be ready to leave. Here are a few more. You may not need this information today but many do. Please email this link to everyone you know in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. If you don’t know anyone living in those state email...