Week #8 Hurricane Season Series: Hurricane Elsa’s Wake Up Call
If Hurricane Elsa’s destruction from Florida to Maine indicates the intensity of the 2021 hurricane season, you better get ready now! When Elsa made landfall as a tropical storm, she still had 60mph winds, spun tornadoes in six states, caused flash flooding, and...
Week #7 Hurricane Season Series: Elsa is the 1st 2021 Hurricane
The first hurricane of the 2021Atlantic season, Elsa, may strengthen as she moves through the Lesser Antilles. Elsa, the first Category 1 hurricane of this season is three weeks earlier than the first hurricane of 2020. Forecasters are predicting that Hurricane Elsa...
Week #6 Hurricane Season Series: Do you live in a Flood Zone?
This week, I attended a NOAA (National Institute of Oceanic Administration) webnair and learned about an website that I knew would be the topic of my blog. Hurricanes produce a lot of water and that can lead to flooding. An organization named First Street Foundation...
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...
