Twas the Week of Christmas and a Powerful Weather Storm Moves Across the Country
Over 200 million people from Seattle to Maine are under a weather storm alert. Meteorologists say a fast system known as a Bomb Cyclone is moving across the country. The storm is expected to cause bitterly cold temperatures, dangerous winds, snow, rain, and flooding...
#7 Persevere Thru the Pandemic Series: Words to get thru the Holidays from Hurricane Katrina survivors
The narratives in my book on Hurricane Katrina women survivors provide strategies on how to get through stressful times, like the Christmas season. “Just do what you can do” one woman said. Another woman commented, ‘decide to just get one or two things done each day...
Dartmouth College: Talk on Mississippi Hurricane Katrina women survivors
This month, I gave a talk at The Roundtable for Black Feminist and Womanist Theory. The three-day event attracted scholars whose work is grounded in one or both constructs. My talk highlighted one aspect of my book, the Overlooked Voices of Hurricane Katrina:...
First snowstorm before Thanksgiving.
A November storm is dumping large amounts of snow in New York. In just one-hour, four-to-five inches of snow fell in Buffalo and more bad weather is expected as the system moves northeast. According to Accu Weather, Lake-effect snow over Lake Erie and Lake Ontario is...
2022 Hurricane Season Series #10: Hurricane Nicole has been downgraded to a Tropical Depression as she moves Northeast
This week, Nicole, a rare late-season Category 1 hurricane hit Florida. The last November storm was over 30 years ago. Now, Tropical Depression Nicole is wreaking havoc along the Northeastern Seaboard. The storm made landfall and left three people dead in Orlando....
#6 Persevere Thru the Pandemic Series: Two things to help.
The Pandemic has tested us in ways we didn't know we could manage, but as tragic as Hurricane Katrina was, Black women survivors found ways to keep going and they have lessons to help us persevere too. Two things these women survivors did to press on after Hurricane...
Book Talk at the Murray African American Cultural Association
Recently, the Daniel A.P. Murray African American Cultural Association housed at the Library of Congress invited me to give a talk on Hurricane Katrina Women survivors. The Zoom session drew academic researchers, librarians, and those interested in hurricanes and the...
2022 Hurricane Season Series #9 – Water is dangerous: Do you live in a flood zone?
Before the next storm arrives, here are six (6) tips to know about water and flooding during hurricanes. 1) Water is the most dangerous aspect of a hurricane because forecasters can only estimate the amount of rain that will fall. 2)Rain can occur quickly during...
Metro DC Book Club Talk
The CLEO Book Club invited me to give a talk on Mississippi Hurricane Katrina women survivors. It was a pleasure to meet this group of Black women readers in Centreville which is right outside Washington DC. I was delighted to see these women walk into the room with...
