Power outage leave students, staff in the dark
Seventh grade saxophone players Harper Allin and Bella Samson read their music using a cellphone’s flashlight despite the darkness.
January 24, 2022
On Monday, Jan. 10, a transformer caught fire causing the power to go out. The affected schools were the high School, Fire Prairie, CTC, Lewis and Clark, and OTMS. The power was out for about 90 minutes throughout the fifth and sixth hour. Many faculty and students were shaken by this surprise.
Principal Robert Shepherd was not at school the day of this outage. He was worried when he got the news.
¨I was actually sitting in a dentist chair when I got a text message,” Shepherd said. “So I started texting the assistant principals to make sure everything was okay.¨
Eighth grader Alec Bosley was initially surprised at the sudden loss of power, though he soon welcomed the surprise. Bosley was in Taylor’s room when the power went out and had to eat lunch in the dark cafeteria. During lunch, Bosley just had one thing on his mind.
“I was just making sure I had apple juice,” Bosley said.
Seventh grader Dawson Lucas was shaken by this surprise. He was in Ms. Kempers ELA class when the power went out.
¨I thought, Wow, what happened?¨ Lucas said ¨Then after a minute I thought, Wow, lets go no more work for a little while.¨
Mrs. Kiser was teaching her woodwinds class when the lights started to go out.
“After I read the email that we would be in the dark for a little while, I told my woodwinds to get their phones out to illuminate their music,” Kiser said.
Ethan Butler • Apr 18, 2022 at 8:06 am
So a transformer caught on fire and that why power went out. I didn’t now that.
alexander colman • Jan 28, 2022 at 1:29 pm
when the power went out we were lucky to have eaten lunch and since the lights from our phones were bad we only played things we know but one of my classmates harper she put her phone in her saxophone so she coud see better