Day: August 21, 2008

Cause Fay is NOT moving!!!!

Trivia question: What’s the most over used adjective in the State of Florida? (see answer below)

This email came in tonight at 6:29 p.m.

“KidAcademy will be CLOSED on Friday, August 22nd. We follow the closing schedule of Seminole County Public Schools. There are concerns of inland and flash flooding as well as wind and possible tornadic activity for tonight and tomorrow.”

So, no school tomorrow. The kids are very happy. In case you missed it, let’s review:

(The first day of school was Wednesday of last week)
three days of school,
weekend,
one day of school (Monday),
two days off due to TS Fay (Tuesday and Wednesday)
one day of school (Thursday)
THREE DAY WEEKEND.

but. yeah, but . . . I was going to . . . (sigh) change my expectations again.

Then this email came in at 8:02 p.m.

“KidAcademy’s Hurricane Make-Up Day will be Thursday, October 16, 2008.
Students will now have school on Thursday, October 16th.
Upper school parents will have parent-teacher conferences after school on Thursday, Oct. 16 and continue parent-teacher conferences during the day on Friday, October 17th.”

The kids don’t know about this email yet. I think I’ll let their classmates tell them when they get back to school. If I tell them, there’ll be whining and crying and gnashing of teeth. While we are all cooped up in the house for the next three days. I’m definitely not telling them.

Trivia Answer: “tornadic” as in “. . . the threat of tornadic activity” (FirstHusband got it right immediately!)

Well. The pool is full.

It’s been raining for THREE days! Alright already!

We are fine. Just annoyed. Much better off than others. We don’t have any flooding. Our backyard slopes and there’s a huge retention pond at the bottom of the hill. Then there’s a slight embankment, some woods and a river. After Hurricane Charley, the river crept into the woods and was high enough to see from our kitchen window, but it never rose above the embankment. After three days of rain, I can see the river water in the woods, but again, not near the embankment. It would take a LOT more rain to flood our house, so we are extremely thankful.

But again. Alright, already!

And I’m locked in my house. Well, sort of. I can exit the back door and walk through the mushy yard and pouring rain to get to my car, but I can’t open my front door. I came in from car line this morning, closed the door and turned the key in the deadbolt. Pulled the key out and the cylinder came out with the key.

Arg.

and cha ching.

I wonder how the boat is doing over at Cape Canaveral. It’s not in the enclosed dry storage facility, it’s at the “repair shop” which means it’s sitting outside on its trailer in this wind. I have no idea if our boat insurance covers tropical storm and hurricane damage, but I would not be at all surprised if it did not. That’s just the nature of insurance in Florida. Either they don’t cover for hurricane damage at all or it’s extra.

It’s just a boat. I’m just thankful we are safe.