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Is there a Drought where You live, Too?

10/25/2022

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It rained yesterday morning—a gentle shower that disappeared into the oh-so-dry earth where I live.  Everyone is grateful.
Map of Kansas, USA, with color-coded drought conditions, October 1, 2022
Current U.S. Drought Monitor Conditions for Kansas, October 18, 2022
In early October, Governor Laura Kelly approved updated drought declarations for Kansas counties—all 105 of them.  Take your pick.  Watch, warning, or emergency drought status, Kansas has it.  

​Whew.
 
The National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) also keeps an eye on drought.  Perhaps you've seen some of their color-coded maps similar to the one pictured above for Kansas.

The NIDIS emphasizes that several drought indicators, for example,
  • precipitation 
  • temperature
  • streamflow
  • groundwater and reservoir levels
  • soil moisture, and snowpack
 should be examined in order to paint a complete picture.

Armed with facts, the NIDIS doesn’t mince words.  Droughts fall into one of its four categories.
  1. Moderate drought (tan on the map)
  2. Severe drought (orange)
  3. Extreme drought (bright red)
  4. Exceptional drought (reddish-brown)
Current US Drought Monitor Conditions for Kansas, USA, October 18, 2018
Description of Current U.S. Drought Monitor Conditions for Kansas, October 18, 2022

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World Teachers'  Day:   October 5, 2022.   Who's Your Favorite Teacher?

10/3/2022

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A good teacher is like a candle:  it consumes itself to light the way for others."

​--Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938)

President of Turkey, 1923 -1937
Color image of a bright red apple with one green leaf.

Perhaps you, like me, have more than one favorite schoolteacher.  
 
1.  Mrs. Gossett.  My first-grade teacher is a favorite because she taught me how to do one of my favorite activities:  read.  
 
She was a young and attractive lady with a flair for fashion that even the local newspaper wanted to showcase.  

​It happened on the day that Mrs. Gossett wore a trendy “balloon” outfit.  

​The long-sleeved dress had no fitted waist and “ballooned” loosely to the street-length hem where the fullness of the garment was gathered to a circumference barely wide enough for her to walk.  That spring-green dress complemented her well-coifed hair, high heels, and bright lipstick.  

All of us kids were impressed.

At the time, we didn't know about World Teachers' Day because it didn't exist.  We'd have to wait until 1994 for a global celebration of teachers' contributions and the support they need to deploy their talents and help build the future. 
Color image of bright red apple with one green leaf

  • World Teachers' Day (world-wide) = October 5
  • National Teacher Day (USA)  = first Tuesday in May​​
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

--G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
British critic and author of verse, essays, novels, and short stories.

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    Lynne Schall is the author of three novels:  Women's Company - The Minerva Girls (2016), Cloud County Persuasion (2018), and Cloud County Harvest (November 2022).  She and her family live in Kansas, USA.

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