Kontan Jou

I am very thankful for a long weekend. There is a ton to do around the house and I really do hope I get to it. However, I plan on resting a good bit this weekend and working on school stuff so I can get ahead of my students. AP students are a challenge to teach. They are so inquisitive and you can not go in there without arming yourself with knowledge of every possible question. Sometimes all I can do is be honest and say I don’t know. I have minimal knowledge of European history, and in American History my weakest area is the colonial period. It’s weird, one class of AP is not that difficult, but the other is so much more advanced (truly AP level students) that it is really intimidating. It’s good for me to be challenged, but right now exhausting.

The remnants of Fay moved through earlier in the week, Tuesday night into Wednesday. The girls got out for a day. We received an automated call earlier today that said they would have to make it up next Saturday. My girls are not thrilled. I did not get out for the day. Going to work I had to reroute because my preferred route was flooded. Coming home, it took an hour instead of the usual 30 minutes. We received almost 12 inches of rain in this area and the river flooded several roads. Even today, many are still closed. Getting home was a trick. I assumed that since it hadn’t rained in seven hours that my preferred route would no longer be flooded. Oh no…feet of water covered the road. I turned around and went back to the highway so I could come home the way I went that morning. Turned off on the road I needed and almost home…that road was flooded. Turned around and called Jem. I had NO idea how to get home. I haven’t learned my way around yet. He got on Google Earth and found a path. That road had also flooded but the water was down to the edges of the road so you could cross. The road had been closed earlier, and probably still was since the barriers hadn’t been taken away. (The guys were on site working on that part.) It was a little frightening with all the water on both sides of the road passing under the small bridge. Not a good situation.

I didn’t have my camera with me…will not make that mistake from now on…but I did find a few pics online:

(None of these pictures are of my immediate neighborhood. They are all at least a mile from where we are. Our neighborhood is just soggy, not flooded.)