Hurricane Katrina
Remember last year? August ending, and school starting again. The Delta variant was in the news.
Remember last year on August 29, Hurricane Ida struck southeastern Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane. "The nation is here to help, " President Joe Biden said, as he toured the damaged places. You can read more about Hurricane Ida here.
August 29 also marks the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina which made landfall in the same area in 2005, still the most destructive storm to make landfall in the U.S.
Katrina is a reminder of how vulnerable people are displaced in disasters, how we are not prepared for such catastrophic events.Some people who could leave left for other places. Many had nowhere to go.
George Bush has the legacy of Katrina. You may remember Donald Trump altered a weather map of the path of Hurricane Dorian with a Sharpie, and tossed rolls of paper towels to the people of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. Now, there's a hurricane of stolen top secret documents scattered over his floor. A Sharpie won't help him this time.
This year, there is flooding in Pakistan from the monsoon rains. Over 1000 people dead and swept away.
And what happened to the Atlantic Hurricane season this year? So quiet, so far. This is the first time in 25 years that there have been no named storms in August. But that may change...
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And today---the last day of August, yard bags and a new black notebook!
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