Mnemosyne, Muse of Memory

The first person that met me in the morning was the shop teacher. he said, "My family comes first. I have to stay home because I live on the Jersey Shore. I can't come to the Back to School Night tonight." That started the day. The superintendent strolled by mid-morning and said that if I was going to call off the Back to School Night I needed to do it early. I then opened up the acuweather website to see the hour-by-hour predictions for the evening. I printed it out and brought it to the super to tell him that I felt there was no immediate threat but many parents would panic and would not come out, so I was going to find a new time to have the event.

It took a long time to find a date that did not conflict with other district events, but I found one. I then announced the change to the students and faculty, notified the district board office, talked to the cafeteria lady that was providing the refreshments, wrote a letter to be distributed at the end of the day and had the sign outside the school changed. When we left the school, I had my secretary put a special message on the voice mail to say we were changing the Back to School Night. After all that I sped home to beat the weather and the traffic. I took my snow chain list with me incase we have a delayed opening or a closed school the next day.

I found out on the way home that the governor declared a state-wide emergency after 4:00 p. m. I got home before it began to blow hard. I hope we don't get too much rain because the ground is saturated. I checked the gutters and put anything that could blow away under the porch.

Now we get to wait it out. I don't have a generator so if the electric fails I will have a flodded basement. We'll see.