The Rumblings of Richard & SACS Committees

Yesterday (Wednesday) is usually my busy day (6 classes), but yesterday I had the added activity of students doing make-up work at morning recess, 6th graders reviewing for the retake of their bimester exam at lunch, and a faculty meeting after school.
The 6th graders are studying weather. Early in the week we looked at the weather channels radar of the Caribbean and watched the movement of the depression that has now turned into tropical storm Richard. They are writing a position paper on the which was the worst hurricane ever. Although most of them have no direct memory of Mitch, they have heard the stories. We looked at the Weather Channel's website information on where hurricanes start this time of year and almost proudly identified the Western Caribbean (right off the coast of Honduras) as the place where a good number of  hurricanes spring to the wind speeds that entitle them to a proper name. I pointed out that we might be watching the birth of another Mitch as the depression wandered off toward Cuba. Today it has looped around and the western side of the projected path has it coming over us with 90 mph winds on Saturday. Maybe the 6th graders will have Richard to compare with Mitch by next week.
The faculty meeting had a few agenda items, but the major part was the introduction of the SACS committees that we will be placed on in the coming days. Our school is up for 5 year review next year. I worked on a SACS committee at a school in New Orleans a couple years back and then moved on before the review committee showed up. I think the most unpleasant part were the belabored meetings about  getting some answer to a focus question just right for the review committee instead of briefly giving a direct data supported answer to the question.
I'm going to try to relate this SACS committee idea to waiting for a hurricane to either come your way or go to someone else now. I'm not really coming up with much. They are both out there - rumbling around and either going to be a flood of devastation or a light breeze with a shower or 2 - but best to be prepared.
I'm not sure if I like that. I'll read it over and might come back to edit that analogy.