Week #5 Hurricane Season Series: Tropical System Churning Near Mississippi
The Gulf Coast first tropical storm of the 2021 hurricane season was issued Thursday night. The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Hurricane Center (NHC) are monitoring a low-pressure system that is building momentum and it could...
#4 Hurricane Season Series – Find Your Evacuation Zone
This week’s post provides a useful website to keep you and the people you know safe during the threat of a hurricane. #HurricaneStrong website is a national resilience initiative whose goal is to save lives by partnering with FEMA, NOAA and FLASH (the Federal...
#3 Hurricane Season Series: What you can expect this year.
By now, you probably have heard news broadcasters say that Hurricane Season has started. From June 1 through November 30, coastal regions from Texas to Maine are under the threat of a hurricane. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) and National Oceanic Atmospheric...
#2 Hurricane Season Series: Keep Your Family Safe
The official 2021 Hurricane Season is in three (3) days. Disaster experts were not surprised that last week tropical storm Ana was named. Preseason systems, like Ana, that form before June 1, the official start of hurricane season, is a trend that started in 2005...
New Series on Hurricane Season: #1 Overactive Hurricane Season Prediction
Hurricanes start as water disturbances off the West African coastline then enter the Atlantic Ocean warm waters. Some of these systems reach the United States as hurricanes. This series will provide information on what you need to know to keep you and your family...
My bike scenario!
Last Friday, I was too sick to post because I injured my calf. During my regular bike ride, I decided to take a different route. What I didn't realize was this route had hills. Yes, you know where this story is going. After arriving home, I felt a little sore that...
Digital Teaching Symposium
I attended a Digital Teaching Symposium by Blackboard this week. In 2020, shortly after the Pandemic started, I became a certified ONLINE Instructor and have kept learning to improve my skillset as an online educator. The Digital Teaching Symposium highlighted many...
Women of Excellence Award
The Virginia Beach Coalition presented me with the an award for my work with the Hampton Roads Poor People's Campaign. At the Women of Excellence awards ceremony I was one of the honorees which included a state delegate, local NAACP president, social media journalist....
Hampton Roads Poor People’s Campaign: A Call for Moral Revival
Since 2018, I have been involved with the Hampton Roads Poor People’s Campaign: A Call for Moral Revival. In 1968, The Rev. Dr. MLK started the Poor People’s Campaign but the effort laid dormant for 50 years until the Rev. Dr. William Barber and Rev. Dr. Liz TheoHaris...
