As a tuition-based, parent-run school ICS is always looking for ways to offset the cost of tuition. They seek out a lot of grants and they do creative fund-raising. The main fundraising event every year is a big one-day event: Walk-a-thon in the morning and a large carnival in the afternoon. It's all scheduled for this coming Saturday. It's a lot of work, a lot of fun, and raises a lot of money -so much so that the school has really come to depend on it. The school holds the event come rain or shine. The only thing that could stop it is a ill-timed typhoon.
And what do we have coming this Saturday? We have a big old T-8 aiming right for Hong Kong scheduled to make landfall right about when the Walk-a-thon is scheduled to begin. A couple of days ago it was classified as a Super Typhoon -I didn't even know there was such a thing- but it's since been downgraded to a regular typhoon. If the Walk-a-thon and the FunFair are cancelled, I don't know when we find a day on the calendar to reschedule.
Pray that that sucker takes a hard left and heads for Macau. Everybody over there is already indoors playing blackjack and roulette. They can just keep right on gambling while the typhoon passes overhead.
We on the other hand are going to be stuck with 1800 frozen hotdogs.
-Jack
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