While we here at chateau SAHD have once again been blessed with the wonder of electricity; sadly, the same cannot be said for the rest of our fair town. In fact, it’s something like 80 or 85% of the town is still without power. There’s something to be said for living close to a commercial stretch of road. And for living on the same road as the town’s First Selectman!<\/p>\n
Anyway, the kids were scheduled to start school this past Monday. School was cancelled largely due to lack of progress with power. So too on Tuesday and today. Finally, a “decision” has been made to open school on September 6th. My understanding is the kids need to be in school 180 days and there wer 183 scheduled this year. So they’ll be starting<\/em> the year two in the hole. With Winter to come.<\/p>\n A very frustrating state of affairs, in my opinion. I’m tempted to frustration by the lack of progress by the power company and the lack of contingency planning by the school district. But ultimately, I just can’t hold them accountable for an event like this. At some point, I think we have to throw our hands in the air and admit that we cannot account for everything. With the infrequency of hurricanes up this far north, I judge this to have been too far outside the norm.<\/p>\n On the flip side, its a good thing this storm didn’t pan out like the original forecasts suggested. We’d be that much the worse for wear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While we here at chateau SAHD have once again been blessed with the wonder of electricity; sadly, the same cannot be said for the rest of our fair town. In fact, it’s something like 80 or 85% of the town is still without power. There’s something to be said for living close to a commercial […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sahd.lamafam.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}