Last week a water line broke underneath Carlie's classroom!! The pressure was so much that the cement floor buckled up in the middle of the classroom and geysers of water started coming in everywhere including pounds of dirt that quickly turned into mud!! Luckily Carlie was in another classroom at the time (I think that would have been a little traumatizing)!! By the time the school was evacuted the entire school was flooded in 2 inches of water!! School had to be cancelled for a week while they had disaster crews come in to try and clean up the mess. Six days after the disaster this is what Carlie's classroom looked like!
They had to completely gut the room including digging up the cement floor and repouring it!
They had to also tear out the wall and a bathroom that divided Carlie's classroom with the hallway. Her room had the most damage since that is where it all started but the rest of the school was quite a mess too!! All of the cabinets had to be removed from every classroom and sheetrock cut to allow the walls to dry. The carpet is all going to be replaced in the next couple months. This is what Cayden's classroom looked 6 days after the flood! All of the parents were asked to come in the day before school was supposed to resume to try and get the classrooms back in enough of a condition for school to start again. It was still more of a disaster than I expected to find considering that they were planning on starting school the following morning!! Miraculously it was able to all be put back together and the kids went back to school the following day.
This is now Carlie's temporary classroom until possibly December!! Much better than the "shed" out back that they were discussing putting them in (not joking)!!! There is still a lot of work to be done but they couldn't cancel school for months which is what it is going to take to get things back to the way they used to be!
