Mandatory hurricane evacuations can be a living hell on families and the more kids and teens you have the more difficult it can become. Consider loading up all your kids into your SUV or minivan and spending 15 hours only to go 200 miles and then realizing that there are no hotel rooms within 1500 miles and the storm is 15 hours closer from when you started.

Imagine doing all this under the stress that you know that when you come back your home may be destroyed and you have lost everything. Additionally, you personally may be able to handle it and know that your family is OK and safe and therefore you have not a worry or care, nevertheless you know that it will be psychologically traumatic for your family and especially the teens and your children.

Many psychologists have done studies on the effect of hurricanes kids and teens after a large category hurricane and they have found that many of the kids and teens are quite a bit tougher than you might think. If you are a kid or teen then you know how tough you are and you may have to help your parents calm down if you are one of the tougher type kids.

Remember that your parents have built a life around their home and their family and whereas they still have their family left now they no longer have a home. This is where the kids and the teens can come in and help the family unit stay together by offering their love and support to their parents. Please consider this in 2006.

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