As of this morning, I am in the path of the storm. I need to get my 24 hour and preevent checklist completed today. Complicating things is that I am working some today and 12 hours tomorrow. The ride home from work tomorrow evening should be interesting.

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Miguel GFZ · September 27, 2022 at 6:52 am

Your first duty is to yourself. Don’t be a superhero, your family depends on that.

Yep · September 27, 2022 at 6:58 am

Hoping you’re released after work.

For us, in similar setting, we weren’t allowed to leave the facility (until the event passed). They’d find a hole for us to sleep.

SiG · September 27, 2022 at 7:47 am

I know I don’t have to say this, but good luck with driving in that sh*t! Is there any way to shelter in place at work until the thing is over? Yeah, that would suck, it’s just a matter of what sucks worse.

Yesterday’s tweaks to the storm put us in tropical storm conditions, with “10 to 20%” chance we’ll get hurricane winds. Since we’ve been through a LOT of tropical storms in the 40 years we’ve been in this house, I don’t expect any surprises. The first hurricane we had, in ’86, I was on a biz trip for work (back when I tended to have one/year – if that). No shutters, no nothing, for a cat 1 storm and my wife rode it out by herself.

Dan · September 27, 2022 at 9:42 am

Best wishes to you…. hang in there!

D · September 27, 2022 at 10:13 am

Good luck with everything. I’m not exactly sure where you are in Florida, but when I saw the headlines this morning, you were my first thought.

Are you heading out, or are you sheltering in place?

Tim Smith · September 27, 2022 at 12:52 pm

I was doing a 24-hour on call as a chaplain resident in Philly when the blizzard of ’95 hit… Path trains and subway both were shut down. My on call turned into a 48-hour stint. A kindly nurse found me an empty surgical bed to sleep in as all procedures had been cancelled. Strangest experience was helping a convention of Jews trapped in center city to buy kosher meals from the hospital’s stores.

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