Taking the law into their own hands

The rain came down, the snow melted and the floods came. It's been a crazy winter and now I can say the same for spring. 

With all the snow melt we have been experiencing lots of flooding in our area. On my way to work yesterday, the street I turn onto had water covering the roadway as well as flooding some of the neighboring houses.

I work at an elementary school in a small town deemed a city. 
In the early 1900's a family settled the area calling it Wiley City after their last name Wiley. 

It's not much bigger than the early days although the school has changed

Our school is brick but not three stories, as a matter of fact I'm sure this building is long gone.

Wiley City is a small home town community which has one tavern, a convenient store and a yearly rodeo. They are very proud of their rodeo, people come from far and wide to participate. Anything outside their city limits is far so whenever people come into Wiley, it's a big deal.

I got the pleasure of watching this close nit people working together as they tried to make sense of the the flooding. 

 A lady decided to park her well used van in the middle of an intersection blocking the entrance to their 'city' from anyone coming or going. No flags, no orange vest nothing to indicate she was assisting in a clean up.

Well I was going. Headed home for lunch before the next session of preschool.

 At first I thought this lady was a victim of a hit and run by the looks of her van but since she was unhurt standing next to it talking to someone on her cell phone, I figured she had it handled and slowly drove around her vehicle. 

Where she had parked her car was completely unsafe from anyone turning off a 5o mile hour road onto the street she was blocking.

Then I had heard they wouldn't allow the buses carrying the preschoolers through the watery road way. I'm not exactly sure what they were thinking, it's the only way out and those preschoolers had to get home.

What were they gonna do, have the kids sit in the bus while they tried to clear the road. 

Hold up there, we got ourselves a situation. You're gonna have to wait.

Yeah, I don't think so.

The bus drivers put a stop to their nonsense and someone called the sheriff to handle the way they were handling things.

I'm sure they were trying to do the best they could for their one horse town and maybe their tactics would have worked back in the early day's of the towns birth but times have changed and you can't take the law into your own hands.

Then again the way things are in the news, maybe our day and age isn't so different after all.