September- The Month of Hurricane Ida
Growing up in Sacramento, the only natural disasters I had experienced were relatively minor earthquakes. Earlier this year, I experienced the Texas power crisis in Dallas when the severe winter storms passed through our area. Our apartment was out of power for 4 days and without water for an additional 3 days after that. I learned many important lessons from that experience, however I thought I would never have to experience anything similar to that until I moved to New Orleans. Shortly before we were scheduled to take our first test from the introductory module, Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana as a category 4 hurricane. I filled up my bathtub to prepare for the Hurricane in case I lost water and stocked up on food and drinking water. I thought I would be mostly fine from the Hurricane because people had told me the area I lived in downtown did not lose power often. As fate would have it, the Hurricane makes an eastward shift to New Orleans and I lose power and water. But, of course,