State of Emergency

The last few days have been crazy! The health center on campus had 1 person on Tuesday with flu-like symptoms. Wednesday it rose to 7, Thursday to 20, Friday to 40, and by Saturday it rose to 80 as they were restricting graduation to seniors and parents only (usually all staff and high school kids attend) as well as canceled chapel. By Sunday it went to 100 and we all received an emergency message that school was canceled for the remainder of the year (there was 1 week left) and that students were to vacate campus as soon as possible.
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So we have been working hard finding places for kids to go...it is really difficult for those who are under the care of the state (social case worker) they are from and have no family. Some of the student homes that were empty have turned into overflow for the health center. They have confirmed that there are cases of type A flu...they will find out today or tomorrow if it is swine flu (and based on the syptoms and what they are seeing they say it is "highly probable" that it is swine flu).
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Jen and I are currently in a home where both the regular houseparents are sick with the flu and of the 2 girls still here, 1 of them has been sick. They are both supposed to board buses today at 11:00 as long as the one that has been sick doesn't have a temperature. Please pray God protects us from illness!