I thought I would pass along the issue I experienced today as a by-product of being on the outer bands of Hurricane Ike. We have always been either very far from or right in the middle of the eye of a hurricane. This was our first experience on the outskirts. I awoke this morning to find that there were major issues in the New Orleans Metropolitan area because Ike was pushing waters in to the rivers, lakes and bayous of Louisiana and causing them to over top the levees. Let me explain the difference between over top and breech. Over top means the waves are pushing water over the top of levees that are not high enough to keep them in. Breech means that the levees break and the water comes through the levee. Breechs allow water to pour in to homes uncontrollably. Over tops let water splash over in amounts that can then be pumped back out by city pumps.
Now that I have given you a lesson on levee issues these were not the issues that I faced. We don’t have levees North of Lake Ponchartrain because we aren’t below sea level. We have large pine trees and tornadoes. I have never experienced tornadoes but I know they occur all around me all of the time. The issue was that school wasn’t canceled but we were under tornado warnings so should I send my girls to school. I finally decided to send them. I worried all morning and finally around 12:00 I decided to just check them out before the rains began. When my 5 year old got in to the car her first response was "Mom we learned how to duck and cover!" I was shocked. I found out they spent the whole morning in the hallways of the school because of tornado warnings and that they were taught what to do if a tornado were to hit.
Who knew that my kids would learn more than ABC’s at school today? I finally decided that it was a lesson that they needed to learn. I was wishing I would have kept them home from school this morning but now they know what to do if they are caught in a situation where a safe place just isn’t available.
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I remember learning duck and cover in school. It was part of our yearly fire drill practice and such. Glad everyone was safe over there and not too much damage occurred.