Moms Talk: New Year, New World
It seems a long, long time ago that it was fall and we were awaiting Thanksgiving and planning for the December holidays.
It's hard to believe it's been less than three weeks since a enigmatic 20-year-old shot up an elementary school in Newtown, Ct., killing 20 children and six adults. Adam Lanza reportedly had at some point attended the Sandy Hook Elementary School. That news came just as we were all still picking up the pieces after Hurricane Sandy. Those of us who live here can't say we were surprised by another power outage in the Somerset Hills in 2012, following two lengthy outages tipped off by the October snowstorm and Irene in 2011. But were most of us really expecting Sandy to pack the kind of winds we more often see in news clips from storms down South? Did we think we would see giant trees stretched across major roadways for days on end? And then…
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12:02 am on Thursday, January 3, 2013
so many questions...not easy to answer. :) I do not think generators at schools are the answer. How would we get our kids off to school when we have no power at home, some do not have water when their power goes out. If you can't pack a lunch or take a shower, it would be a burden to try to get your child to school. We need to do more to prevent power outages. I am shocked by the lack of … more ›