We did not lose power this weekend. In fact, we only had a little bit of ice on Friday night. From what I can tell, the front seemed to hover right over Saint Louis and for the most part, those of us on the east side of the Mississippi escaped the worst of the ice this past weekend. I would like to believe that spending $100 to prepare for the storm invoked some sort of “Murpy’s Law” response from Mother Nature, but I guess I’ll just have to settle for lucky.

It was a far different story in the western part of the city where at one point there were over 100,000 people without power. The problem areas include Maryville University, one of the two schools at which I teach. While I know how awful it is to be without power, I won’t lie and say that I’m disappointed that the school has cancelled classes until Thursday. Since I only teach Monday through Wednesday over there, this means I can avoid my cross-city commute for another week.

I have to rewrite all of my syllabi to account for the change in the schedule, but that shouldn’t take too much time.