Students and teachers found themselves learning and teaching from home last week after a storm damaged electrical transformers, which knocked out power to Archbishop Carroll. PECO restored power to the school Friday afternoon.
Because of the outage, students had three flexible instructions days beginning Wednesday. Teachers posted assignments on Schoology for students to complete each day.
One student who was happy not to have to go in to Carroll was senior Billy Englert.
“I am happy that we had this break,” Englert said. “I was able to get a lot of my work done.”
While Englert and most of the Carroll student body had FIDs and did school work at home, more than 50 seniors as well as seven faculty members were on the winter Kairos retreat at the Malvern Retreat House, which never lost power.
One of the retreat rectors expressed relief that the power outage that caused the school to shut down did not also affect Kairos.
“I knew that the day of the retreat there was going to be some really bad weather — high gusts of winds and 2 inches of rain,” senior Anthony Auteri said. “I was constantly praying that we wouldn’t lose power on the retreat. Thankfully we didn’t. I know that even if we did lose power, we would overcome the obstacle and continue with the retreat. Nothing was going to stop us from being in God’s presence. In the end, I’m grateful we did not lose power on Kairos 113.”
After PECO restored power to the school, Principal William Gennaro offered thanks in his notification to the Carroll community.
“We are happy to report that power was restored to the Archbishop Carroll Campus around 1 PM this afternoon,” Gennaro wrote in an email Friday. “We are grateful for the work PECO did to get us back up and running again. Dr. Scott and I appreciate your patience as we worked to navigate through this situation.”
