FWIW, here are incidents surrounding my sending the peaceful trip report that is part 1 of this set: Part way through the retelling, I was slightly annoyed to get a misdirected phone call that came to me instead of to its intended recipient, one of my staff members. I succeeded in forwarding it without incident and surprised in minutes to have this person's supervisor come tearing into my office saying "Do you know where her children are in school? The phone call she just received was for a bomb threat at her child's school!" That was kind of upsetting to say the least, but the one who received the call had already left and we didn't know which of her 2 children was affected. I had a training session scheduled at the community college not far from here, but close to the main high school for Galveston. Suspecting potential traffic snarls at the high school, we took a slightly roundabout route to Galveston College, parked, and headed up the street in the direction of the class. We noticed a large number of people walking toward us and what I thought to be a large number of students changing classes turned out to be EVERYONE who had been at the college - being evacuated by a bomb scare there. Pleased to have my cell phone with me, and spotting the person who was coordinating the training session across the way, I called back to my home campus to let them know what was going on, and to see if we could reschedule the training to Pelican Island. Many phone calls commenced and to make a long story short, we did finally get back to the classroom at Galveston College - and on my calling to Pelican Island, now I found classes had been cancelled there. Not a bomb scare, but as part of the national observance and day of prayer. I am so sorry I unloaded the kayak from the roof of my car last evening - I could sure use some kayaking hydrotherapy today! Hope your weekend is off to a more upbeat start - and my sincere condolences to those whose weekend and ever after have been tainted by the tragedies at the start of this week. Natalie Wiest Galveston TX *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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