The National Weather Service Hurricane Center in Miami is watching an area of low pressure in the Western Gulf of Mexico that is expected to intensify. The appearance of the first tropical system is a good reminder to us here in North Florida to ready our families. The Florida Division of Emergency management sponsors the terrific KidsGetAPlan you can use with your family to ready yourselves. John and family ran into State Emergency Response Team (SERT) at the home school convention in Orlando recently.