Mass Hysteria

[eggwards]

Well, the hysteria over Hurricane Rita is growing here. I have a worker who's getting so hysterical that she's updating us every ten minutes about the storm, and she's been asking us about when the company is going to let people go to evacuate. I have to keep telling her that the company doesn't work that quickly, and if she wants to leave early, she'll have to take a vacation day.

Still, the word at the moment is that we will be closed on Friday and letting our way understaffed Denver office finally use the disaster recovery plan. I can't wait to see what disaster that we'll come back to.

Rita is a category 4 storm and seems to be heading for somewhere just west of Galveston, putting Houston on the "dirty" side of the storm. It should be coming in sometime early Saturday. Since I was already going to be bugging out to go to what now should be a very wet Austin City Limits Festival, I'll be fighting the traffic going to Austin on Thursday night. I hope the company doesn't make me go to the Austin recovery site.

Right now I'm trying to figure out if there's items I should carry with me to Austin. I may pack up the computer and a few items. I was going to pack a small bag, but now I'm going to carry extra clothing just to be sure. My apartment complex is pretty new and my apartment is on the third floor, facing northwest, so things should be OK, but we'll just have to see. If nothing else I'm going to move things away from the windows and unplug the electronics.

Still, it's a hurricane, and we have warning, things can be prepared for and there's no need to go into fits. I've started playing with my associate since she's annoying everyone with her antics. Should we be concerned, yes, but when I asked if she had a plan for what to do if she was allowed to leave, she said no.

She's going to need therapy.

Comments

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

Facing north you should be OK, unless the winds get REALLY bad and does more tornadic type damage instead of a hurricane's regular straigh-line winds.

I've started playing with my associate since she's annoying everyone with her antics.

**snicker** Tell her that you you heard, "On the Internet^TM", that the storm is increasing its westward speed. That should torque her into high gear.

When I worked at the InfoMart in Dallas, We had a chinese guy that would do much the same thing everytime snow was predicted. George, my fellow "SysAdmin in Crime®", and I told him to leave us alone or we would dump him under the server farm raised floor and leave him.

[eggwards.livejournal.com]

We've done all sorts of things, like unrealistic storm surges and wind speeds...or so we thought. This one's a monster.

Hopefully the apartment will be OK.