Four days into to the beginning of the school term and we already have a "snow" day, in this case a storm day in anticipation for the Leslie, the tropical storm expected to arrive 9 am this morning with gust of winds expected to reach 110km/h. Since there is no school this morning until further notice, I am seizing the opportunity to update my blog in case we are impacted and experience a power outage from the storm.
Tammy-Lynn, one of the former monitrice working in Newfoundland said that last year, her school was closed for 13 "snow" days. That is like one day of closure per month, except all crammed into second term, since there is not usually snow until after Christmas. In my entire academic career, I only remember experiencing two snow days, once in grade 6 where the mayor of Toronto mobilized the army to help clear our streets (we have a good laugh now at having been such drama queens), and another time when I was in undergrad, but that was only a cancellation of evening lectures.
More update on Leslie later...
5pm:
The storm has passed, and all is still outside. It turned out Springdale was spared, and we did not end up experiencing much damage other than a few hours of heavy rain and wind. Other places in Atlantic Canada and the Maritime were less lucky. The evening news broadcast a tally of the various damages from landslide from the heavy flow of water, washed away roadway, flooding, damage from the wind. Two towns, Badger and Triton, just around 75km away from us were really impacted by the storm. These things are hard to predict.
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