Tag: disaster
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April 01, 2008 04:44 PM EDT --
(Reposted from my blog)
So even though I'm not the most domestic person in the world, I do try. Every once in a while, I'll go all out with cooking dinner. (Okay, every once in a RARE while.) . . .
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November 25, 2009 11:36 AM EST --
The Carp are coming! The Carp are coming!
Doesn't have that "ring" to it, does it? But it's real. This country has been appallingly STUPID in its enforcement of invasive species . . .
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August 16, 2007 12:39 AM EDT --
"It is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worthwhile the journey."
Wilfred Thesiger
Day from Hell
Over the . . .
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September 03, 2007 12:30 AM EDT --
Today we had a 4.7 earthquake in Southern California. My friend and I were sitting in my living room and we started to feel some shaking and we both looked at each other to figure out what it was. . . .
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March 25, 2008 11:18 AM EDT --
I bought a cake. I ordered it special. It was actually 16 cupcakes dressed up as a duck. It was gorgeous. I was afraid something might happen to it, so I carefully removed it from the . . .
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June 07, 2008 01:57 PM EDT --
Seven years plus of drought. Drought disaster designations for most of the state. Low reservoirs, closed marinas. GF&P unable to release trout into the streams and lakes due to low water levels. Ranchers . . .
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January 05, 2007 04:09 PM EST --
wet sand on ankles
wall of water approaches
paralyzed with fear
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March 29, 2009 03:53 PM EDT --
I had just graduated high school and had recently turned 18 years old. It was my 2nd day at my new job, I was a nanny in Southern California. I was living with the family and taking . . .
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January 19, 2008 09:04 PM EST --
My daughter's ninth birthday is the day after tomorrow. We were looking at cookbooks together tonight choosing a cake to bake for her birthday when I remembered the year of the Broiled Birthday Cake . . .
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June 12, 2009 12:15 PM EDT --
Dream I'm in school with the (my) paintings, novel files and more. There's lots of farm animals there. The school is several stories high and there's a tornado threat for us and mom both. I can't see . . .
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September 15, 2006 11:06 AM EDT --
NONE BUT FAMINE CAN LAY ME OUT
When the earthquake breaks, it loosens my burden
When the volcano blows, it releases my fire
When the flood waters flow, it cleanses my soul
When the hurricane turns, . . .
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August 27, 2007 04:37 PM EDT --
In the predawn hours Sunday morning, the Codrington family was asleep in the apartment they had just moved in 2 weeks before. There were 5 of them in the house that early morning--Donavere, 30, and . . .
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October 24, 2007 03:19 PM EDT --
This is the fourth day of the fires in San Diego County. From the safe vantage point of an Indian horse camp, 70 miles east of the city, I am watching coverage of the disasters occurring from the Mexican . . .
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April 16, 2008 03:31 PM EDT --
Name the one thing other than your children or pets that you would grab and run out of your house with if you had a few minutes after knowing you had to leave immediately. Assuming you were fully dressed . . .
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February 16, 2009 06:48 AM EST --
So I posted on Saturday that my oven wasn't working properly and I had trouble baking my cake. I didn't have much of an option but to drive 20 miles to finish baking the cake in my brother's . . .
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January 04, 2008 09:27 PM EST --
Fire! The missiles are spreading in all directions
No safe zone, bomb shell, and no protection
Everybody's a target and wants you to be the next one
stay off the wire to stay as an exception . . .
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January 08, 2008 09:17 PM EST --
Ugh...today, I laid down for a brief nap as I was exhausted. It was much more brief than I might have anticipated. The weather here has been very warm and with it has come an invasion of Ladybugs. Now, . . .
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June 20, 2008 07:24 PM EDT --
After the Oklahoma City Bombing, everyone was so nice. Drivers, clerks, mailmen, I mean everyone. It lasted about a year. Now, everyone is back to being selfish and rude. Why does . . .
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August 04, 2008 08:03 PM EDT --
Aral sea rescue plan a 'partial success'
Juliette Jowit
guardian.co.uk ,
Friday August 01 2008 18:12 BST
Article history
30 years apart … the Aral Sea in 1973 . . .
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May 12, 2008 09:09 AM EDT --
I'm sure you all have heard about the tornados that went through Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas on Saturday afternoon. We were lucky and only got hail, high winds and rain. . . .
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