Sometimes Sports Is Not All That important

1999 when Hurricane Flyod came through if I remember correctly schools were out a good part of at least two weeks.  This weekend here comes Matthew and once again major flooding all around eastern North Carolina.  Maybe not quite as deep as Flyod but what does it matter whether there was four feet of water in the road or two.

Rocky Mount has it's flooding but maybe the Fayetteville area has had it worse. This Saturday is suppose to be homecoming at North Carolina Wesleyan and they have on the schedule Methodist from Fayetteville.  Monday the game was postpone because both schools are closed and just maybe one of the two may not have classes at all this week if not both.  No makeup date has been announced as of yet so homecoming is on hold this year at North Carolina Wesleyan.

Any one who has tried to get off 64 near the sports complex knows the water is over 64 and is on the football field.  At this point not as deep as Floyd but finding a way around all the closed roads could last for days.

Now looking at our local high schools nobody went to school in either Edgecombe, Nash or Wilson Counties so are we looking at a whole week or more without any school time?  Will anybody be able to play by Monday setting up Monday Night- Friday night games next week?  Will they even be able to go to school Monday?   Could we be having Tuesday night games next week setting up another game on Friday.  This is of course just conjecture because  if there is no school even next week we will have no games of any kind until school resumes.

We may be faced with just cancelling football games this week.  I didn't like it earlier this year when Tarboro and Northern Nash played Friday, Monday and Friday.  That is simply too much football and no time to recover.  I could see if Friday is out for football trying to play Monday or Tuesday but if they can't be play cancel this week and try to play on from there.  This is of course if school takes in by next week and we might go through the the same scenerio with week three games that we are going through now.

Fifty miles down river in Greenville ECU was suppose to play Navy Thursday night and school is shutdown for the whole week in Greenville.  Being fifty miles down river the flooding will only get worse for them When all this water in Rocky Mount makes it way there.

The bottom line we have too much to worry about getting our lives back together to worry about sports.  Like in 2010 when the Twin Counties was going through an economic disaster a basketball state championship gave us a few moments to cherish and forget our problems at home.  We might not of had money in our pockets but we had pride in our soul from what the basketball team accomplished.  Now it is time to clean up the mess.