Our school... aka The Desert

We had another fun filled day at school.  I went to turn on the faucet in the lady's room and nothing happened.  Being a problem solver, I tried the sink in the kitchen.  Still nothing.  I ended up washing my hands in the drinking fountain (which still worked) and then asked the 3rd and 4th grade teacher if the water worked in the boy's bathroom.  Nope.

So we had a few of our handy parents out here trying to fix the water situation.  There was water at the Principal's house and at church, so the problem seemed to be localized to our school.  The cook was able to make lunch; my students were super worried about that.  A few students said that they heard the parents talking and we would have to cancel school for the rest of the day if they didn't get the water working again.

The problem is probably a frozen pipe somewhere under the school.  We're not sure if it's broken or not.  One of the dads is a construction worker and he thought we should dig it up and fix it.  A few of the other dads thought we should wait a few days and see if the ice melts and the problem is solved.  In the meantime, they ran a hose from Mr. E's house over to the school.  So that's all the water we had.  And school wasn't cancelled.  They turned off the hose at 4:30 and will turn it on again tomorrow morning at 7:30.  Hopefully it works!  The students had a very limited bathroom/drink break time today.