Tag Archive: hurricane

Lessons from Hurricane Ike

Every disaster teaches lessons we can all use to become better prepared in the future. I’m not a regular reader of Popular Mechanics, but my Professional Organizer colleague Amanda Kovattana (thanks, Amanda!) pointed me toward the October issue, with its stories of four people who faced disasters and survived. Among the four stories in the…

The tale of Harry, one Katrina dog

While trolling the online pet adoption sites, a friend of mine had her heart stolen by a big black and white hound found wandering in Monterey, California. The local shelter believed that he had been a “Katrina dog”, one of the many pets displaced and separated from its owners during the hurricanes and flooding in…