A quick lesson to the Florence County School Administration. The above map is called a RADAR Weather Map. The green and yellow indicate rain, and the point just east of Columbia where the two roads meet is where Florence is... If there is no green or yellow, it isn't raining. Sometimes it rains, but it doesn't necessarily mean school needs to be cancelled - like today.
Yes, classes were axed at 100PM for Elementary School, and 215PM for Jr. and Senior High today - for nothing. The rain was minimal, and winds have topped out at 20MPH. While it might seem like a stupid decision that didn't affect anybody, I'll straighten that thought out. I work with two other people in my department. When the news came, one of my co-workers had to drop everything and pick up her daughter, right in the middle of our lunch shifts. Since you can't drop kids at daycare early, she had to take the rest of the day off. That left the two of us to cover for her work - it's not her fault, but she never should have left, because as the day went on, it became obvious that Ernesto was pushing East. Then again, I can read a map...........
My guess is that someone at Admin. saw the Thursday afternoon storm, and figured that the extended weekend could be stretched another day. What they don't realize is that when they make dumb calls like this one, thousands of residents - not just the ones with kids- are thrown into chaos over nothing. Thanks Guys!
This just in.............. Classes will be cancelled for all of April..
4 comments:
This is what what we get for starting school before Labor Day...
Yankee !!!
You know they wanted a long weekend.
Mike, ex post facto, if you're staging the schools as shelters, within mutual aid and other incident command operations, you've got to have the kids out of the schools, we've not established special needs shelters for sex offenders yet and within certain parameters a shelter must accept all that show up.
Yes, Ernesto was a fizzle like Floyd for SC, but the management was not the FUBAR that cost Jim Hodges when he rolled the dice and ordered an evacuation and mismanaged it with a Clintonesque flourish. His insistence that we never had a plan to reverse I-26 out of Charleston and they had to improvise on the fly was one coffin nail that cost him low country votes by the thousands.
Councilman Reino, get to know your emergency manaagement people, at a nexus of I-95, 20 and the 93/94 route, Florence County's needs to address mass casualty situations are growing. Keeping police, fire and EMS trained and equipped are like a good comprehensive policy on a BMW 745, you hope you never need it, but OTMs are driving the same roads as the other uninsured illegal immigrants...
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