Student drivers should be prepared to leave 15 minutes early to accommodate these potential problems. Students with small, low cars could meet the van in Graton at 8:25 and get a ride in. ****** Kids driving to Green Valley Road and looking at the water does not count for school credit.
This is the message that came, in an email, from the Principal of Ethan's school. In heavy rains, Green Valley Road will flood which is, just a year ago or so, how Alexander (19) minimized the value of the Volvo wagon he had. (We paid for half of it so we only lost about a $4,000 investment.)
This road's flooding was the source of some "fighting" that Ethan and I had a couple of weeks ago. He thought, since his Subaru is higher off the ground and has an air intake that's near the top of the hood, that driving through the Green Valley Creek (GV Flood, really) would be OK. I didn't think the reward was worth the risk. (We paid for half of the Subaru, too, so I could see that investment going up in smoke...or down the drain; whatever metaphor works.)
I'm glad for the rain, the hope it gives to farmers in the Central Valley who depend on snow melt through the summer to irrigate their crops.
I also like that Lynne (the principal) has an innate understanding of the adolescent mind: looking at the water doesn't count. I chuckled when I read it.
This is the message that came, in an email, from the Principal of Ethan's school. In heavy rains, Green Valley Road will flood which is, just a year ago or so, how Alexander (19) minimized the value of the Volvo wagon he had. (We paid for half of it so we only lost about a $4,000 investment.)
This road's flooding was the source of some "fighting" that Ethan and I had a couple of weeks ago. He thought, since his Subaru is higher off the ground and has an air intake that's near the top of the hood, that driving through the Green Valley Creek (GV Flood, really) would be OK. I didn't think the reward was worth the risk. (We paid for half of the Subaru, too, so I could see that investment going up in smoke...or down the drain; whatever metaphor works.)
I'm glad for the rain, the hope it gives to farmers in the Central Valley who depend on snow melt through the summer to irrigate their crops.
I also like that Lynne (the principal) has an innate understanding of the adolescent mind: looking at the water doesn't count. I chuckled when I read it.
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