Post Hurricane Matthew

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Hi-dee-ho everyone!  

1 ) It has been a long trying week in eastern North Carolina dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew which brought record breaking flood levels.  The schools in the county where I live (Johnston) will be out of school for 6 days.  Many people are still without electricity. Many areas have a boil water alert due to so much untreated waste water dumped into the rivers and tributaries.  Many roads have been washed over and even collapsed.  New bus routes are being drawn to work around the collapsed roads.  The Neuse River in Kinston is predicted to crest tomorrow and much of the town is already under water.  

2) Look at how fast the water is moving in the creek behind our house.

The link above links to my FB page, so I'm not sure if you'll be able to see it, so here are some photos:

 3) My family was without electricity from Saturday until Tuesday. We lost two refrigerators and two freezers full of food. The creek water behind our house rose to the back yard, but fortunately did not cause any property damage.  We are some of the fortunate ones.  My family is usually prepared for the once or twice a year ice storms so we pulled out the propane gas powered camp stove, the candles, and the flashlights.  Fortunately for us, a cool front moved in behind Matthew making it comfortable to open the doors and windows in the house and not have to run the air or the heat. My husband cooks most of the meals and he won't let something like no electricity stand in his way.  We had spaghetti and homemade sauce for our first hurricane picnic supper.

4)  After power was restored we had to look for food.  Friends on FB had been posting which stores had newly stocked cold foods or didn't.  My daughter works for a grocery store and it was still closed after three days.  On Wednesday we ventured out to our super Wal-Mart to see what we could find.  There was one tub of our preferred brand of pimiento cheese and one bottle of our preferred coffee creamer so we grabbed those.  The rest of the dairy, meat, and frozen foods areas were pretty well barren.  While we were at the store, a dairy and frozen food truck came in and an announcement was made for all available employees to help unload it.  Here is just one of the freezer cases. Keep in mind this is 4 days after the storm had passed and power had been restored just the day before.

5)  On the up side, I had enough battery power left on my lap top on Saturday and Sunday to make some fun stuff for my students.  On Monday and Tuesday we found an open Sheetz station and charged all of our devices and my daughter did her chemistry homework.  There I finished the second activity.  Get more information about these and other activities at my Full Moons and Friday Afternoons TPT Store which is mostly about third grade.  Visit my Primary Mathemagic TPT Store for grades K-2 math activities.

Please keep the victims of Hurricane Matthew in your thoughts.  There are so many who have lost everything and this nightmare is not over for them.

Happy Teaching!
~Gwen