Hurricane Katrina – Another Birth Pain

At 10 pm CDT on Saturday, August 27, 2005, the National Hurricane Center issued a hurricane warning for the north central gulf coast from Morgan City, Louisiana, eastward to the Alabama/Florida border including the city of New Orleans. A hurricane warning means that hurricane conditions are expected within the next 24 hours and preparations to…

All Shook Up!

(Earthquakes – Part 2) In the May Day Star, I provided an overview of the causes for most earthquakes. Earthquakes typically are the result of shifting tectonic plates due to faults that exist below the Earth’s surface. The three primary types of faults are called extensional, transform and compression faults. (For a detailed explanation see…

Great Balls of Fire!

“I saw a large ball of fire, with a long tail that descended rapidly from the sky and fell before our incredulous eyes,” said teacher Elmer Adan Rivera. Francisco Aguilar Sabillon described it more graphically, “I arrived almost immediately to the site of the explosion — there were enormous flames, and everything was destroyed ….