PSA: severe weather forecasted for Monday 8/7
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Anonymous
That's pretty silly, then — bad policy on OPM's part and on the part of the contractor. People should be permitted to stay in offices when they close early, and definitely no one should be required to take mandatory PTO when weather forces closures. The employer should just eat those hours; maybe next time they bid on a contract, they should increase the bid a bit to cover similar possible incidents. |
Anonymous
This. Its crying wolf. |
Anonymous
It did NOT upend your life, get a grip. A cancer diagnosis upends your life. A bad car accident. Not a weather alert for a storm that wasn’t as bad as it could’ve been. |
Anonymous
Dramatic much? I’m glad we didn’t lose power or have trees fall. |
Anonymous
Ok, drama queen. When is the last time the bell was rung before a severe summer storm? More than a decade ago? I would rather the weather orgs and alerts be extra cautious. The storm 10 days ago was awful, and we had NO heads up (except general thunderstorm warnings). You do you, but I'm going to head the caution because better safe than sorry. |
Anonymous
You guys are probably new to the area, or have never seen or experienced a severe storm damage before. When you've seen it, you hope for the best, are grateful that it "wasn't that bad" and have no complaints. |
Anonymous
Wrong. |
Anonymous
I think it's possible you reacted to the forecasts with more stress than many others did. For me, it was minimally disruptive. I biked home from work earlier than planned, but mostly because I had to get home in time to do a Zoom meeting that otherwise would have ended late enough for the weather to mess up my commute (and I did not want to be on a six-mile bike ride through a thunderstorm of any strength, let alone a tornado). I spent 10 minutes making sure there were no loose projectiles on the lawn and taking in some stuff from outdoors. My kids' activities were not canceled, and pick-up from the day camp bus happened to be right as the rain arrived, so I drove there instead of walking. We had dinner a little later than usual, mostly because we didn't want to go to the grocery store mid-storm. I made sure our portable phone chargers were plugged in and fully charged. None of that was particularly stress-inducing. Your situation may well have been more complex! But maybe next time, you'll remember this one, and the prospect of another storm won't be as daunting. |
Anonymous
Oh, thank you so much for this! I always get them confused, even knowing the "watch out" and "warning to get inside" trick. WaRning "R" for "run" might stick in my sieve of a mind. |
Anonymous
That’s generally how it works with contractors- you get paid by the hour worked. If you don’t work, you take leave or make up the time later. |
Anonymous
I just know that watch is the less serious one because we have those all the dang time and nothing ever happens. |
Anonymous
+1. Been here 16 years. Glad we didn't lose power. But whether or not they warned us wouldn't have changed whether we lost power or not. |
Anonymous
Uh, no. The storm delivered as forecast. Big wind, damage, massive hail for the mid-Atlantic. We were just very fortunate in the immediate DC and burbs to have it split around us. Carroll Co MD still has 23% of customers with no power. https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/yesterday.html |
Anonymous
| Dang, I should’ve been on here complaining last week when you guys had all that tree damage and long-lasting power outages, whining that I had to listen to the warnings when I didn’t get affected after all. |
Anonymous
| Power out in our McLean neighborhood. Maybe the wind? |