Posted in animals, authorities, awareness, baby, children, comfort, communication, danger, disaster, disease, elderly, emergency, family, government, health, help, ideas, illness, Impact, law enforcement, medicine, mental and physical health, military, news, observations, organizations for special needs, parenting, pets, power, responsibility, safety, schools, service, special needs, stress, television, Threats, trauma, utility companies, violence, water shortage, weather, well-being on Sep 23rd, 2009
September is National Emergency Preparedness Month; there are things you can do to prepare for an emergency with your family’s survival in mind. Are you ready?
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Posted in Australia, crime, death, disaster, ecology, emergency, emotions, environment, Faith, family, Fear, help, home, horror, hospital, hospitals, life, loss, murder on Feb 9th, 2009
Breaking news of a horrific nature…Australia has been experiencing some terrible fires, overnight, that has caused major damage to some towns and at least 84 deaths. Although that number may continue to climb as they gain control of the brush fires. There are many who were hospitalized with burns and some of them may yet lose [...]
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Posted in Beauty, commitment, courage, death, disaster, ecology, Education, emergency, Faith, Fear, Green, grief, health, help, hopes, Impact, life, loss, mental and physical health, news, pain and misery, sadness, safety, science, stress, Teamwork, trauma, violence, water shortage, weather on May 13th, 2008
The earth cries out in grief, and humanity is groaning, in it’s misery; do you hear it? Cyclones hit Myanmar thousands and thousands are dead, homeless, thirsty, starving. China is shaken to it’s core by the earthquake that has also killed thousands. Sumatra was washed away from the Tsunnami and thousands and thousands are dead [...]
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Posted in weather on Feb 6th, 2008
My family is scattered around the whole country. The weather has always had the power to destroy; but, it seems in the last few years that it has been magnified. Had to do some calling this morning to family in Kentucky, and soon will be calling Atlanta, Georgia and other points south to check [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 18th, 2008
Once again we are experiencing winter at it’s less than stellar approach. Here in michigan, when it gets like severe snowing and blowing with wind chills in the -minus category…it is a little hard to recommend!
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Posted in Winter on Dec 11th, 2007
Keeping warm, here in michigan, during the winter is difficult. It is difficult for a number of reasons; not the least of it being financial. Everything under the sun keeps going up in price. Jobs are scarce and the people who do have jobs really don’t know day- to- day whether they will have [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 23rd, 2007
My dad was moved to the ICU today. He was given heperin as they believe that he has a blood clot below the lungs. The doctors are not sure yet though so they are doing more tests. He will have a specialist evaluate him tomorrow. The problem is that his blood is so [...]
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