Unexpected....but I soooo needed it.

So, unexpected day off from school today. Gustav did a number on our whole state, and I really thought this morning "We were almost flooded out yesterday, it's not safe, they have to close school in Crossett." I didn't want to drive in that mess. It was bad enough yesterday and not flooded-much. But it was getting that way yesterday afternoon, so I knew this morning would be bad. Uh, yeah. I got almost into North Crossett, having passed three downed trees, two that had taken power lines with them, two trucks up to their mirrors in nastiness on dirt roads, and one car that had apparently ramped off the road into several feet of water---then the highway was blocked off, covered in water, and a police officer told me that Crossett schools had been closed ten minutes ago. Lovely. Not that it would have mattered any earlier-they didn't put it on the Little Rock stations, only Monroe, which I don't get here in Monticello. So now I'm back home, grading papers that have been waiting on me for days, and I'm going to have lunch with my daughter since she is still in school.