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This was "traffic control" in our neighborhood.
As we walked to the grocery store or fruit stand we would see a car
or two come up to the police, and they always let them pass.
I was curious how other parts of town were blockading people or allowing car travel.
I wish you knew how crazy busy this street by our house is ALL the time,
because seeing this was so weird!
We were so thankful that the fruit vendor guys made it through to replenish all our neighborhood fruit stands.
And then on the 18th when rain came again, the gutters and drains couldn't handle it,
and I was once again thankful drivers were not on the roads
whether there was corona or not. Whether there was a flood or not.
However, Keira's education was another matter.
Like many in America, the French school wasn't prepared for something like this.
Her teacher had moved into a hotel before Covid because her apartment situation wasn't healthy.
The internet was spotty, and she didn't know how to use zoom or even make a video for the students.
The hotel she was in didn't have a generator, so when she would call the kids
around lunchtime on Whatsapp to check in, if power went off, the call was dropped.
(We have our internet hooked up to a battery, for instance, so we don't lose internet
when power goes off - it would be really difficult for the kids to take online tests, etc
if we were always losing a connection)
Keira's teacher would text the assignments every day on WhatsApp.
I would translate them in Google translate,
and then Keira and I would work through them together.
It was quite the system!
The grey building with the white doors in the middle of this picture is where our
neighborhood generator is. It makes a lot of noise, and as you can tell from where
I'm taking the picture, it is right across the street from our house. But the noise is always
a blessing to hear when the town power shuts off, and some man across the street starts
the engine on the generator so we can have power.
I hope that whatever this guy got out of his house for was worth it.
Thankfully for him, a police officer from the blockade crew came down to help him out.
Covid...when it rains it pours.
March 18, 2020
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