Overall, Irene was reasonably nice to us.
The only problem is flooded roads and all lines of metronorth are down. I need metronorth to get to work. DH (with baby) may have to drive me, because it does not look like the service will be restored by tomorrow (flooded tracks and downed trees and power lines on my line) and we don't know which roads are open.
But the weekend itself was great. We stayed indoors the entire time (it takes a hurricane to keep us from going to to brunch, ha?). My mom was trapped here with us, so we got a lot of help with the baby and had nice meals the entire weekend!!! (Crapes, meat and potatos dish my my made, buttermilk pancakes and tomato meatballs with mash potatoes... all from scratch and delicious). And NSD.
And, we had a chance to organize and clean. Floors are freshly washed, ton of paper shredded and filed... Everyone got some sleep for a change. Even baby did not wake up until after 8:30.
It took a hurricane to have a NS weekend.
August 28th, 2011 at 08:21 pm
August 28th, 2011 at 09:50 pm 1314568226
August 28th, 2011 at 11:16 pm 1314573393
My super tricky anonymous way to do this (don't laugh, its primitive) is to call up your workplace fax to see if it tries to work. Fax machine, because its physically there - often workphone voicemail is stored on a server farm somewhere - and power has to be on for it to do that screech.
August 28th, 2011 at 11:35 pm 1314574504
Our employer has a website for staff emergency information, so the info will be there by midnight. But I am pretty sure we will be open.
August 29th, 2011 at 01:34 am 1314581660
I'll clarify: At the time (15 yrs ago), I worked in a very, very small field-sales office node in NC, where the main company was in CA. I was a temp with two other people. No HR department. At the time, I didn't have my bosses' phone number and frankly, he was a bit of a flake - would stroll in at 10 am even during the best of times. As a temp, of course, if you didn't show you didn't get paid, CA office wouldn't really know if the branch was open or not, and with the flaky boss MIA ... I hit upon the fax trick. Since the fax would only have the received phone number, its basically anonymous.