Midland students and buildings are weathering the recent storms that are battering the Central and Southern Coasts of California. No classes have been canceled. To prepare for the rain, students and faculty gathered extra wood on Sunday, and made several dozen sandbags to protect certain areas, such as the Library and two faculty homes. Students have been digging canals and ditches around some of the student cabins to divert the rainwater, and thus far (as of Wednesday evening), everything is holding up. Thanks to Ben Munger '79 for thinking ahead and preparing the sandbags, to Chris Waugh for redirecting water with a back hoe, and to Tom Rogowski for constantly checking buildings and the property.
Luckily, the storms have had several lulls, which has allowed the ground to soak up the water, so it's not pooling and flooding like it has in years past. With more rain on the way, we'll stay ready and vigilant. Games for the week of January 18th have all been canceled, and depending on the weather, the same may be true for Friday/Saturday soccer games. Basketball games are on schedule, but subject to cancellation if travel becomes too treacherous. Finally, Alamo Pintado is roaring (relatively speaking), as these pictures attest (they're taken up above the Indian Mounds, on the way to the Grass Mountain trail).