Hurricane Katrina

Hurricane Katrina is stalking us. If she affects our area (around Monday?), it will be three major hurricanes (Ivan, Dennis, Katrina) and two tropical storms (Arlene, Cindy) to hit us in just one year.

If you are keeping up with the news, and want to know just how much Hurricane Katrina may affect us, we are located on the Florida/Alabama border, just 10 miles or so north of Gulf Shores, Alabama and 4 miles from the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay (The Weather Channel is in town today!). Go to the National Hurricane Center website, if you want to turn this into a homeschool lesson!

You never know about hurricanes, whether they'll come or not; and if they do come, you don't know whether they'll affect you greatly or not. Still, you must get prepared.

On the positive side, there's something nice about all this preparation: the yard debris gets picked up and put away; the chickens get to roam freely, which they love (we live on a river and have to assume it will flood); the laundry gets done in case the power will go out; the pantry gets stocked in case we are stuck at home for quite a while. I posted once on preparing for a hurricane, so today I will look at that list and work on it.

Before I begin preparing for Hurricane Katrina, I wanted to let you know that I've posted a few more sites that have great forms for your Household Notebook. Go to the post on Creating a Household Notebook to see the list.

I'd like to work on these notebooks with you today, it looks like Katrina has changed my plans.

by Lori Seaborg