Tuesday, June 16, 2009

News article

Gail found a news article the other day in the SJ Mercury about the state of things in Mississippi when it comes to housing. Click here to read it for yourself. There is one line that just hit me like a ton of bricks and reminded me, again, why we keep heading back to Mississippi. It said "nearly 20,000 families are still living in temporary trailers and apartments." Twenty thousand families just in Mississippi. Words fail.

Monday, June 1, 2009

It's June 1st...

That means the hurricane season has officially begun. According to NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) it's going to be a "near-normal Atlantic hurricane season." Here's hoping and praying that the season is quiet and uneventful.

The names, though, for any potential storms are already locked in.
Here's the list for 2009:
  • Ana
  • Bill
  • Claudette
  • Danny
  • Erika
  • Fred
  • Grace
  • Henri
  • Ida
  • Joaquin
  • Kate
  • Larry
  • Mindy
  • Nicholas
  • Odette
  • Peter
  • Rose
  • Sam
  • Teresa
  • Victor
  • Wanda
Bill--please don't become a hurricane! :)