Today my friend and I took a bike ride over to the school where we teach. We’d heard that our school was completely inaccessible, and we wanted to see what that looked like.

Our route took us through one of the more exclusive areas of our town, a neighborhood where few (if any) houses sell for less than seven figures. Even our house there would be valued probably 2.5 times what it is here.

The road was, at times, virtually impassable:

We saw some startling effects of the storm. One house seemed to have almost a magic power over the tree that fell in its yard. It damaged only a bit of the gutter on both the stand-alone garage and the corner of the house.

Their neighbors, however, were not so fortunate:

We made it to our school and saw just how blocked it was:

Other than some trees that were in the car line (and have since been removed), there was nothing.

But still the announcement came today: school is officially out for the rest of the week. No e-learning. No nothing.