the off season is stil interesting

so i'm sure you all know about hurricane irene and the damage it did to new england. well it hit us here in southern vermont pretty hard. the road crews have been doing an excellent job of getting things up and running and i appreciate that very much.
but what does irene have to do with camp?
at the moment, quite a lot. the weekend irene hit there was a wedding being held here(yes these things DO hapen at camp on occassion) i was helping out by doing dishe,s cleaning the bathrooms, taking out the trash, all the little things people take for granted. saturday night during dinner the rain started and the guests were okay by that. sure it puta slight damper on things, but they made themost of what they had. the smart guests decided to leave saturday night, while others remained hoping to spend one more day in vermont. well those people got a little bit more than they bargained for. sunday morning, due to the excessive amounts of rain, our culvret gave out, stranding 105 wedding guests here.
that was bad... and about 3 hours later the power went.
lets just say that things around camp were pretty hectic for a while. no power, no phone, no road...
those of us kids who live here in marlboro always joke about being stranded in the midle of nowhere, but this time we really were. there were holes 20 ft wide in rt 9, all the dirt roads up here were practically non existent.

now normally when there's a group of people here, you never know what to expect. usually they aren't the kind of people who have experienced power outages lasting more than a day. here in vermont, we've gone for a week without power before and that's cool with us. sure it sucks that you can't take a shower ( in my opinion that's the worst part) but we deal. for these people sometimes it's a little bit harder. we once had a group here over thanksgiving break when the power went out for ohh i think it was about 10 or so hours, and after four they were coming and knocking on our door asking us to fix it. that annoys me. there is no way for us to fix it you just have to wait it out. i was glad that the "wedding campers", as they became known, took things relatively well. sure they were bummedand a bit frusturated that they couldn't get out, but they made it work.
they pulled together and had meetings, started offering classes, and even had "Sporta diena", sports day, a camp tradition. meanwhile, slowly but steadily we were getting people out. wednesday, 3 days after the storm we finally got the last of the "wedding campers" out.
questions or comments? feel free! but please, be nice!