The rains have been coming down, the Wabash River has flooded areas that rarely become flooded, and roads across the area are impassable. That includes out by the barn, which has many creeks, cornfields, and pastures which have high water.
Why my school corporation did not call a two hour delay yesterday so that buses (which begin running at 6:00 AM when it is dark) could better see the roads is beyond me. And, we paid a price for that decision.
This is a photo taken next to Tim's (my barn owner) driveway yesterday morning before school.
One of our high school buses loaded with students was washed off the road. In the dark, the driver did not see the water over the road (two feet deep at the time), drove into it, and then was washed off the road and into the field. The students had to be rescued by jumping from the emergency exit at the back of the bus onto a rescue vehicle and then be ferried to another bus. Fortunately, no one was hurt.
See that line of trees to the left of the white police car? That's Tim's driveway. (He's got a truck so he can get out.)
Many school corporations are on a two hour delay this morning, just as they were yesterday. And my school corporation, just like it was yesterday, is not.
I would have hoped we had learned from our mistake yesterday.
