Cyclone hits Getxo!

Two weeks ago, on Friday night/Saturday dawn, a cyclone hit Getxo and various other areas of the basque country. During the afternoon, the weather reporters warned that there would be strong winds of up to 150km/h that night. Due to this, a dinner I had planned with some of my friends was cancelled, although the cyclone didn't start until around 2 am.

I woke up when the wind started whistling and making my blinds shatter. There were several crashing sounds, which I assumed to be the garbage containers falling over, and it was very hard to fall asleep again.

The next morning, when I woke up, one of the blinds in my house had been torn apart by the wind. The street was full of leaves, tree branches and garbage, and several roads were closed.

Next Monday, I woke up normally to go to school. When I arrived there, however, some of my friends told me that we could leave school immediately, because the electrical system was down due to the cyclone, but Sol (our homeroom teacher), and Mr. Jenkins (the Upper School principal), said we had regular classes.

In the middle of spanish class, several smaller kids began passing by, leaving school, so we started complaining, asking why we couldn't go home too.

Eventually, during second period, we were allowed to phone home for permission to leave. It was amazing how, in 15 minutes, the whole school was empty.

We had been told that an update to the status of the school (whether there would be regular classes on Tuesday or not) would be posted on the school web page, and I was hoping that the system hadn't yet been fixed, but unfortunately, classes resumed on Tuesday.