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Thanks to experience with numerous hurricanes, we were prepared for the Texas power outage and no one slept in the cold at our house. When you are prepared, three days is not that bad.I have lived along the Gulf Coast my entire life, mostly in the Houston Area. I lived and worked in Louisiana when Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Gustav slammed into South Louisiana and have learned from my successes and failures and those of my friends.After moving back home to Texas and a long period of relatively quiet storm activity, Hurricane Harvey was a test of different beast until...

Just before our Independence Day celebration, British journalist Piers Morgan took to Twitter to complain about surging firearms sales here. He tweeted, “BREAKING: Just when you thought the news couldn't more depressing...8.3 million guns have been sold in the United States since March, meaning 2020 is on course to be the biggest year for gun sales in American history.” Morgan, who once told Ben Shapiro our Constitution is a mere “little book,” isn’t the only one downplaying this incredible phenomenon. Gun control activists are touting a new UC-Davis study, absent of peer review and marked by faulty methodology, attributing historic...

FORT LEE, Va., June 5, 2006 – Military families are being encouraged to "load up their pantries" as the Defense Commissary Agency launches an awareness campaign encouraging military families to keep nonperishable foods, water and other necessities on hand for emergencies. Defense Commissary Agency posters on the tell shoppers to stock up for this hurricane season, which started June 1.   DeCA is teaming up with the Armed Forces Emergency Services Branch of the American Red Cross to raise awareness of disaster preparedness throughout the military community. The "What's in Your Closet?" campaign kicks off this month and is intended...

U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Tammara Wipf, Company A, 425th Civil Affairs Battalion, visits with a young Iraqi orphan girl during a civil affairs mission at the Salhiya Orphanage in the Karadah District of central Baghdad, March 6, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Jason Dangel U.S. Troops Deliver Essentials, Toys to Iraqi Orphans Working in conjunction with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the 425th Civil Affairs Battalion delivered approximately $500 worth of supplies to the Salhiya Orphanage. By Multinational Force-Iraq BAGHDAD, March 9, 2006 — U.S. soldiers from the 425th Civil Affairs Battalion, currently attached to the 4th...