Wild Day!

This day was nuts! Once I got kids to school and me to work Mother Nature went crazy! Our schools went on lock down/storm warning about 8:30am. We took our kids to the basement immediately. My office is in a trailer so needless to say I evacuated in a flash! We had tornadoes and horrible wind like crazy! Scott said he pretty much was at the tail end of the tornado on his way to work. Scott loves storms and for him to say that this was the worst one he's ever seen, you know it was bad! The sky looked like a dark greenish/purple color, dark as night! It was raining so hard you couldn't see anything! Well as I said I was in the basement with one first grade class and a few preschoolers that were there for their kindergarten screening. What a first experience at school! There were several of us teachers down there so it wasn't too bad. We don't have preschool class on Fridays so fortunately we were missing about 50 kids! Our teachers are so awesome, they brought down a Junie B Jones book and did a read aloud. The kids LOVED it and it kept them calm. We only had to have them duck and cover for about 20 minutes, the rest of the time we had them against the wall. They were all really good. I thoroughly enjoyed the book, I love Junie B and it was a nice comic relief! We spent quite a bit of time downstairs until the storm passed. It did quite a bit of damage, tons of trees were uprooted and a school not too far from here lost its roof on some parts. Our district was lucky, we just had a short power outage at the high school and it was only part of the building. So on with our day we went. By noon you could only see blue sky and puffy white clouds, it was crazy! And extremely HUMID yuck! About 3 o'clock I got a call from the High School Nurse. She said that Jarika had been out in the outdoor classroom for Ecology and passed out! They decided it was because the little stink didn't eat lunch, took her antibiotic and pain meds (the nurse distributed them just as she was supposed to) and was out in the heat and humidity and it was too much! Poor girl! So she learned her lesson, no more skipping lunch, especially on medication. Fortunately she is doing fine now and is at work. I went ahead and drove her to Springfield because she wasn't sure she wanted to drive, just in case! When she passed out she was teaching some fourth graders about genetics and such, using her rabbits as models, so Cooper was there when it happened. He didn't see it but he was worried about her! He came home with his face painted with a Blue Jay. Not sure how that fit into the lesson, but I'm sure it did! So Jarika is at work, Avery is at the 2nd Grade Round-Up at school until 11pm, Cooper went to spend the night with a friend and Addy is mesmerized with Blues Clues, I think it's time for a nice long rest!