Hurricane Harvey

Thursday, February 16, 2017 The Golden State embraced me while I waited for the rental car bus. With palm trees and abundant sunshine and February’s crisp air, it was always a ruby-red-slippers moment when landing at LAX. The forecast showed rain during my four-day, solo…

What can we do while curbside recycling and large waste removal services are suspended?Quite a lot, as it turns out. Hurricane Harvey left a mountain of trash behind. Piles of debris line the streets in neighborhood after neighborhood, some of them taller than the rooftops….

Still cleaning up after Harvey? Here are some important things you should know: It’s hard to believe that nearly two weeks have gone by since the devastating rains Hurricane Harvey brought to Houston finally stopped. We have all felt the effects of the storm in…

Like almost everyone in the Houston and Southeast Texas area, I spent last Friday preparing for a hurricane. We bought a few cases of bottled water, prepared some cooked food, stocked up on non-perishable items, and thought through a plan for collecting water on the…