Hurricane Katrina Strikes

As some of you know, Miss Katie’s full name is Katrina. Yes, I’m an 80’s nerd and named her after Katrina and the Waves. What can I say? When she was born I was indeed walking on sunshine...

So for the past month or so we’ve been teasing her about the possibilities of Hurricane Katrina coming along this year. Even as recently as last week when H.K. was forming in the Caribbean we joked about it:

Q: Why is Hurricane Katrina forming such strong winds and powerful gusts?

A: Because her hurricane parents told her that she couldn’t stay out past curfew.

But then H.K. hit New Orleans and Biloxi, and ripped the cities apart. And suddenly the joke wasn’t as much fun anymore. Hurricane Katrina was (and is) a bitch who ripped apart thousands of homes, countless businesses, and far too many lives. My Miss Katie may be an obnoxious teenager at times, but she’s certainly not that bad.

So I’m pasting the link here for donations to the Hurricane Katrina fund. I’m sending them $25 today, in honor of my daughter, who’d much rather walk on sunshine than be associated with a category 3 hurricane.

http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/animal_environ/hurricanes/?source=YAHOO&cmpgn=HMPG


The one good thing? They retire names of storms that cause major havoc, so this will be the one and only Hurricane Katrina. And let’s all hope they don’t get alphabetically far enough down for there to be a Hurricane Tommy – that’d just be too much.