*Monday:*

*The school gymnasium was packed with wet bodies. A kind of bored panic filled the air. After all, what more could they do but wait for the worst the storm threw at them and then pick up the pieces when it blew itself out?*

*"Thanks for being here, I know it's been hard for everyone. And there's still lots of work to do to clean up after yesterday's catastrophe" said Ros, the town's mayor, referring to the wind that had blown off parts of a few roofs, and torn off a main limb of the biggest cedar in town, crushing a corner of J. Z.'s corner store.*

*Ian spoke up, "we can't worry about yesterday's fiasco. We gotta think about the crisis we're gonna be in tomorrow if the power's not back. Then it will be a real emergency!"*
