Power

Over last weekend St. Michael was subject to a few power outrages.  The longest of these was at the school.  We were told that the school would be without power and more importantly internet for most of the weekend.  The teachers frantically raced to get everything done Friday evening.  This is because all of our record keeping is done online and all of the curriculum we are provided depends on an electronic component, e-ponent?.  No internet equals no grades.  I got what I could done and then went home.

A little history on why this power outage had to occur.  Anthony A. Andrews school is a FEMA disaster shelter.  For example if a tsunami were on the way everyone would pile into the school (don't know why because the place is 100 yards from the beach) and would ride it out.  The school district gets a certain amount of money each year to maintain this and other schools disaster readiness.  When the school was built three years ago they installed huge generators that could power everything electrical in the school.  Unfortunately the installation was botched and all they could do was keep the emergency lights on.  The school district knew about this problem as soon as they turned the generators on and nothing in the school worked.  Flash forward three years and they decide it is time to fix the problem.  A problem that could have been fixed over any of the three previous summers and they choose a weekend when I am working here, I bet the odds!  On Sunday night I was hoping that the district workmen would be wrapping their job up, I asked one of them when they would be done.  He listed off all things that needed to be fixed and told me the would be done when it was done.  At that news I went home and went to bed.

I asked my co-workers if school would canceled if they did not get everything turned back on by the morning.  Apparently we go to school no matter what, no running water, no heat, and no electricity.  This is because we would have make up those days at the end of the school year and NO one wants to do that.  I went to school Monday morning and the workman had gotten the job done, hazzah I could use the online component for my lessons.  Interesting foibles of working in the bush.  Here are some fishing pictures that go with my UNK post.

Super big thank you to the Martins and the Thomases for having me along.