Hurricane Dorian - How is it impacting your student?

twoinanddone
Fri, 30 Aug 2019 22:07:08 +0000

My daughter’s (former) school has already cancelled classes for Tues and Wed. At this point they are having the students shelter in place (dorms, housing surrounding the school, told them to get off the beach but you know college kids, they won’t). For one of the big hurricanes two years ago, they did evacuate to the local shelters (mostly pubic schools) and sent them with a small amount of food. They tried to get the dorms and dining halls open as soon as possible.

I think there were 4 hurricanes during the time my daughter was in school. One was supposed to make a direct hit on the school (when Al Roker and Ginger Zee are broadcasting from your neighborhood, you know you are Storm Central) but it actually missed them and went a little north. She went to Orlando for one (and Orlando was hit harder than Melbourne) and did evacuate to NJ for another.

Right now she’s in West Palm Beach and there is no where to evacuate to, because they don’t know where the storm will hit. That’s always an issue. Go west? Go north? Stay home? Who knows!