I just finished sending off my lesson plans for next week and posted them on Edline (school internet page where parents and students can see). There is a tropcial storm (Matthew) supposed to strengthen a bit and pass over us Saturday at 8 a.m. I'm having a hard time settling now. Although the winds aren't supposed to be too strong when it passes over the local river is already close to flood stage and the river at the town 20 miles away is already flooding.
The 7th grade language arts/social studies teacher and I are doing an integrated project. Fridays we meet for a period to touch base and plan the next week. I was a bit fidgety during our planning and began telling Katrina stories. I told the evacuation story and then how my wife and I found our pre-Katrina agenda from 2005 a year after Katrina. When we read what we had planned for the weeks following Aug. 29th, 2005, we laughed. All the professional development, curriculum, facilities, fund raising, communication, ... plans and efforts were washed away and never thought about again until we found the agenda in the bottom of a box a year later. It doesn't take a hurricane to send your life in another direction, but for me they'll always be a reminder that today's plans can become less that tomorrow's memories.
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