Oct. 8, 2008
It's Hurricane Season, Can Ya Tell?
September was awash for this blogger. Did you notice. Now if you are in North Texas, you were just enjoying the rain and the beginning of the Cold Fronts coming through. You were jazzed about the Homeschool Days and Educator Open Houses while getting those free State Fair tickets for the kids. Yes, in North Texas, life was good. In Lubbock, you were flooded which gave you a small taste of what other Texas towns have experienced, quite unusual for the high plains.
But along the South Coast, we had Dolly slam into Brownsville, then Gustav aimed for Texas, but swerved east to LA the last couple of days. Right after that, we had Ike slam into Galveston taking whole neighborhoods with it. We survived having the eye pass within 10 miles of our home, got the generator going to watch TV. They said that 4.1 million people were without power and it would be 4 weeks before power would be restored. We packed up, gave the generator to a neighbor to use, and headed to North Texas to start our vacation a day early.
But in the mean time, everyone on the South Coast got to *practice* their hurricane skills such as:
- finding the store with batteries AND water,
- filling up tanks before they get below 1/4 tank,
- making sure you had all your *important papers* together, and of course,
- going by the vet to get your doggies shot records so you could kennel them in another city.
There are parts of SE Texas that still have no power. But it's under 250,000 people now, 4 weeks later. Think *camp out* in your own home. There are still over 50,000 people whose homes are no longer there. And for the towns along the Bay and south of town, it will be a year or two before they get back to normal.
So if you are enjoying the sunshine where ever you live, do consider allowing your dear husband and teen a weekend or two to come down to the South Coast to help rebuild homes and churches during the next year. When you have extra curriculum you don't need, consider contacting THSC to see if they know a family who could use it. And most of all pray for the healing of the hearts of the families on the South Coast.
|
| • Post A Comment! • Send to a Friend!
|
Comments
|
|
|
Howdy, we are busy building a great resource for you. We hope to have great information if you are moving to Texas, if you are doing a study on Texas, or if you are homeschooing in Texas. So get your tea ready and enjoy this site
• Home
• View my profile
• Archives
• Email Me
• My Blog's RSS
• San Antonio Regional
• Austin Regional
• Texas Special Kids
• Minority Homeschoolers of Texas
• Smoothing the Way
• TORCH Cathloic Homeschool
• DFW Regional Group
• Houston Regional Group
• State Group
• Our State HS Law
• Site about Texas
• Homeschool Student ID's
• Keepers of the Faith
• Answers in Genesis
• Fun Construction Kits
• The Old Schoolhouse Magazine
• Our State Page at TOS
• HSB Front Porch
• Home Where They Belong Blog
• TOS Online Lab
• HSB Literary Club
• It's a Small World Blog
• HomesteadBlogger
Our e-Newsletters give you wonderful, informative information about homeschooling, news bits, contests and PRIZES for homeschoolers, articles to encourage you, calls for writers, free unit studies and lesson plans, and just a lot of FUN. Bring the community to your inbox – and no worries, we never sell, trade or give your email or any other information out to anyone.
Come join the homeschool party!
Subscribe to *FREE* newsletters offered by The Old Schoolhouse Magazine.
To see a close-up
of the current cover,
click here.
Do you have the whole set of back issues from The Old Schoolhouse
Magazine?
Click
here to view all back issues and read the themes - you
will want to collect the ones you've missed!!
At Bookstores NOW!!
Join Our
Affiliate Program!
Earn Money
Every Time
TOS Magazine is Sold in
Partnership with You.
more . . .
• HSN
• Military Blog
• Alabama
• Alaska
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
Hawaii
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Michigan
• Minnesota
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• Montana
• Nebraska
• Nevada
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New Mexico
• New York
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Vermont
• Virginia
• Washington
• West Virginia
• Wisconsin
• Wyoming
• Washington DC
• Guam
• Puerto Rico
• Alberta, Canada
• British Columbia, Canada
• Manitoba, Canada
• New Brunswick, Canada
• Newfoundland/Labrador, Canada
• NW Territories, Canada
• Nova Scotia, Canada
• Nunavut, Canada
• Ontario, Canada
• Prince Edward Island, Canada
• Quebec, Canada
• Saskatchewan, Canada
• Yukon Territory, Canada
• UK
• Australia
• DonnaC
•
• catherinelove
• Debi
• SadEyes
• drewsfamilytx
• military
• Isaiah5513
• TC
• maggieraye
• WalkInFaith
• trustingdaily
• MamaDuke
• sunydazy
• bbullard
•
• weare3
• My3BoysHomeschool
• nextdoor4
•
• kaenhu
• timely
•
|
|
