'Twas a Dark and Stormy Schoolday

Oh my goodness... did someone say "wet and stormy"?

This is crazy, people, literally crazy... ready for my bizarre school-day story?

Okay, so today was messed up anyway — we were going to have this huge pep rally for the latter part of the day, so all our classes were half the time they usually are (yay).

And then IT happened...

Halfway through my Spanish class there was this insane blue-and-red light and a shower of sparks from a nearby telephone pole (hidden in trees). Then the lights in the school flickered once, twice, three times... and died.

Our backup generator wasn't strong enough to repower all the lights in the school, so we were ordered to stay in our classes. This we did... for about an hour and a half. Everyone was freaking out in an oh-isn't-this-so-cool kind of way.

Then it was announced that we could go to lunch... so we did, and it was very creepy. There were just a few high-power lights set low to the ground, so one end of the cafeteria was dark and the other had weird flickering shadows all across the walls. I wish I had my camera so I could show you guys; someone swore there was blood on the floor. (I think it was probably just ketchup, but who knows?)

Finally, the power came back on. (Everyone was quite disappointed!) Yet mere minutes afterward, the intercom came on and announced that everyone could leave. This was three hours before our regular release time, so naturally there was great celebration!

So unfortunately we did not have our pep rally. So sad! We had a hypnotist that was going to come, streamers all over the place, a paper for the football team to run through, the cheerleaders had an amazing dance... all for nothing. Ah well. Our homecoming dance (for some reason called the "Harvest Ball" is tomorrow night and the whole school was buzzing about dresses and dates; I'm going solo (so far) but getting ready at a friends'. It goes until 11pm so I doubt I shall be able to post about it until Sunday, but it ought to be fun! My dress is ah-mazing.

The storm has died down now, but it was seriously scary before. People kept making jokes about the school being lifted up and carried to Oz, that's how insane the wind and driving rain were!

This day has probably been the most surreal I can recall regarding school... it will be the talk of the school for many months to come!

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