More about the flood….
First the funny…..we had to completely empty our fridge and freezer after not having power for so long. We tried to keep things cold with some generator time and dry ice…but after almost six days I did not trust anything in there to be safe. It was tough throwing away all that food, for many reasons, but we did it. So this morning in anticipation of going to the grocery store to replenish I cleaned the whole thing out with clorox wipes. Now my dressmaker friends will appreciate this, cause I’m sure they know what I found in there while I was wiping everything down. Yup it was half a blue sequin! Gotta love it. There is humor even in the tough times.
Now for the sad. My daughter still Irish Dances. She also does some other dancing, but has been doing this the longest. For the second time in her life her dance studio has been destroyed by flooding. ( The other studio she currently dances for, Perkins School of the Arts, also received a lot of damage but not to the extent that nothing is salvageable.) She dances for Clann Na Cara in Vestal, NY. It truly is a school that is a family. We all feel the same pain of not having a dancing home any longer. The kids kept many of their awards there, we stored dresses there, had a large bin of shoes, the stages, the sound system, the posters and pictures of the kids at various events. It’s all gone. We get to go in tonight for the first time to help clean stuff out. Not sure of what to expect, but I know how bad that neighborhood was hit. Parts of it are still underwater, and other parts are closed because fecal material covers everything. (EWWWWWW!) So I am imagining many many fundraisers in our near future to rebuild our studio. Until then I know we are all searching for a place for the kids to have classes. And yes, I did say this is the second time……it happened before with a different location in 2006. Same kids…..different school that eventually closed and left the area. It’s difficult to face it all again. But we will. It’s the Irish way right?!!!!
