QUOTE : be fast enough to blow the school away. And if the school blows away, there will be no school! Yay! But right now I had other things to worry about. The basket was swaying back and forth. I was afraid the whole thing might flip over. “Are we going to die?” I shouted. “Not on my watch,” Miss Newman shouted back. What did watches have to do with anything? She wasn’t even wearing a watch. Miss Newman grabbed some ropes on the side of the basket and pulled on them. I guess it was for steering or something. The basket stopped swaying. “This is a dangerous situation,” she hollered over the sound of the wind and sand blowing in our faces. “I need to report the weather to the people!