Snow, Snow, and White Snow

Snow covers Red Cloud. Copyright Red Cloud Indian School.

  Snow, Snow, and White Snow

                                                              By Jin Yup Jung ‘14

An early snowstorm canceled everything this past weekend: football, volleyball, and classes on Monday. Facebook was busy on Sunday by Red Cloud students, who posted about there being no school on Monday. The day off actually helped students to have a break one more day, to finish their own homework and to prepare for their quarter grades which are Friday. There were at least two feet of snow on the ground around Pine Ridge and it has been melting since Sunday.

While some were enjoying their break, others struggled because of no electricity. The biggest reason that electricity was off was that it snowed too much and it broke many branches off trees, which disconnected the line of electricity. 

“It was really scary that electricity was off suddenly while I, Clay, and Yoshiki were watching the movie Iron Man 3,” said super senior Jin Yup Jung. “I thought that Big Foot was coming to my house because the outside sounds were so noisy, like a rock star, and all I could see was white in the dark.”

Also Red Cloud Crusader Volleyball varsity players, who went to LNI in Rapid on Friday, struggled with no electricity during this weekend at their hotel. “No heat, no phones, no service, no anything. Especially at night was the scariest,” said Caine Ghost Bear, the volleyball manager. “Our bus did not start so we had to wait until five and it finally started."