Even though the tornado has long been gone, Dierks is still picking up from its destruction. Our town has made the news several days and we were the lead story for a couple of those days.
The town is still conserving water. Two portable water treatment facilities brought in by the National Guard are now in place and helping some with the amount of water being supplied to the town. The town is still hooked up to Nashville's Rural Water as well via a fire hose. Which is why we are still under a boil order.
Wal-Mart and a food bank in Texarkana have supplied bottled water to the school and town for drinking purposes. My brother is on the board of the food bank so he helped get the kids that water.
School started back on Wednesday but the kids are only going until 1:00 for the remainder of the week due to the water situation. Portable bathrooms were set up at the high school. School officials decided the elementary kids weren't ready for these. LOL I can only imagine how that would have gone over..... Halle said they told her class not to flush the potty if they pee peed but only to flush if they "really used the bathroom bad." Some teachers said that wasn't much different than a usual day at the elementary! I so could not be a teacher.
Since we have a well, Halle has not had to worry with any of this so she was really talking about what all was going on at school. She said she told her teacher about her experience with the tornado.
I can only imagine how the town of Mena is coping. Our town is dealing with several issues but atleast our town is still standing!
The town is still conserving water. Two portable water treatment facilities brought in by the National Guard are now in place and helping some with the amount of water being supplied to the town. The town is still hooked up to Nashville's Rural Water as well via a fire hose. Which is why we are still under a boil order.
Wal-Mart and a food bank in Texarkana have supplied bottled water to the school and town for drinking purposes. My brother is on the board of the food bank so he helped get the kids that water.
School started back on Wednesday but the kids are only going until 1:00 for the remainder of the week due to the water situation. Portable bathrooms were set up at the high school. School officials decided the elementary kids weren't ready for these. LOL I can only imagine how that would have gone over..... Halle said they told her class not to flush the potty if they pee peed but only to flush if they "really used the bathroom bad." Some teachers said that wasn't much different than a usual day at the elementary! I so could not be a teacher.
Since we have a well, Halle has not had to worry with any of this so she was really talking about what all was going on at school. She said she told her teacher about her experience with the tornado.
I can only imagine how the town of Mena is coping. Our town is dealing with several issues but atleast our town is still standing!
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