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<blockquote data-quote="klmno" data-source="post: 456355" data-attributes="member: 3699"><p>My update- well, it's been an adventure. The hotel lost power and communications yesterday about 2 mins after I posted that post on the previous thread. They had a generator which got us through 3-4 hours on minimal power- lights only, no ac, and still no communications and cell was not working. This morning, with NO coffee in my system, I went to car to listen to the radio to get an update since the rain had finally stopped. There was still no power or communications at the hotel. I couldn't hear any details on the radio except the vast number of people without power. I went to visit difficult child after sitting 1 hour in a drive-thru at the only fast food restaurant open to get a cup of coffee and a biscuit. Visitation was cancelled. I went back to hotel, still nothing up and running. I drove to surrounding hotels and found only half had power and those were all booked or didn't allow pets.</p><p></p><p>Now- here is my beef for the weekend and it's geared toward the government officials who are supposed to be on top of emergency preparedness, supposedly having learned their lessons from previous times, and the media:</p><p></p><p>When people have evacuated and most of those either ordered to or strongly encouraged to and it's been made well-known that we can exppect major damage, flooding, etc, and this happens and there is a MAJOR power outage, communications are down, and most of the places that are open must take cash only so they are going back to actually using math and counting change, so the only thing you have any hope of getting to to learn any information is a car radio, here are my suggestions:</p><p></p><p>1) Don't refer people to a website or tv station</p><p>2) Don't refer people to a place to call</p><p>3) Provide REAL updates on the radio: such as "people who were told to evacuate from area ABC can now safely return, or can expect to safely return in 2 days, or people from area A can return but not those from areas B and C, or we will let you know at 8:00PM when you can safely return"</p><p>4) If you are the dj of the ONLY radio station that can be heard 100 miles away and there's been such a disaster, don't just get only the radio with "updates" to say only "we have major power outages"; provide whatever detail you can, such as "outages appear to be in areas A, B, and C;or scattered throughout and there is flooding in neghborhhods ABC or scattered throughout", whatever. And the city officials should be gathering this info from emergency agencies and communication providers and the power company.</p><p></p><p>The problem is that there are thousands of people dislocated from home with no power, phone service, or internet, or tv, who have NO idea if they should return home today, or plan to stay 3 days, and can't find out anything of any substance from the only source they have- that radio. </p><p></p><p>I left to return home late morning due to not being able to find a place in that town that accepted pets, had power, and had a vacancy. I got half way home (and let's not mention traffic headed back that way right now), and stopped at a hotel. This is the cheapest hotel chain there is and I got gouged. But I'm here, in AC and with communications because I have no idea if I can get home, if my neighborhood is flooded (although it appears there's a huge chance it is) or if I have power and communications there (and I would assume they are out). </p><p></p><p>I tried to get news from the website of a tv station in my hometown but they have high-tech videos of everything instead of "words" and this hotel hifi is too slow to let it load and run, so I'm still in the dark, so-to-speak, about conditions there. It wouldn't matter except this is not paid time off work and I have to make the time up IF my street is flooded and the hhouse has no power. If it does have power and I could get to it, then I have to use vacation time. And of course, the hotel is my bill even when told to evacuate. I'll get there tomorrow am. But I need a shower and to do laundry. I can do the shower here but it won;t last until Tuesday, obviously.</p><p></p><p>And here I am spending time off feeling like it's all wasted instead of being able to get the dogs to the vet and seeing an attny re difficult child/PO stuff, as I so desparately need to do.</p><p></p><p></p><p>It's taking this site about 3 mins to load every time I click on a thread or forum. Argghhhh!!!</p><p>Does everyone want to get together and say "YOU ARE GROUTCHY" now? LOL!! Yes, I most certainly am today.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="klmno, post: 456355, member: 3699"] My update- well, it's been an adventure. The hotel lost power and communications yesterday about 2 mins after I posted that post on the previous thread. They had a generator which got us through 3-4 hours on minimal power- lights only, no ac, and still no communications and cell was not working. This morning, with NO coffee in my system, I went to car to listen to the radio to get an update since the rain had finally stopped. There was still no power or communications at the hotel. I couldn't hear any details on the radio except the vast number of people without power. I went to visit difficult child after sitting 1 hour in a drive-thru at the only fast food restaurant open to get a cup of coffee and a biscuit. Visitation was cancelled. I went back to hotel, still nothing up and running. I drove to surrounding hotels and found only half had power and those were all booked or didn't allow pets. Now- here is my beef for the weekend and it's geared toward the government officials who are supposed to be on top of emergency preparedness, supposedly having learned their lessons from previous times, and the media: When people have evacuated and most of those either ordered to or strongly encouraged to and it's been made well-known that we can exppect major damage, flooding, etc, and this happens and there is a MAJOR power outage, communications are down, and most of the places that are open must take cash only so they are going back to actually using math and counting change, so the only thing you have any hope of getting to to learn any information is a car radio, here are my suggestions: 1) Don't refer people to a website or tv station 2) Don't refer people to a place to call 3) Provide REAL updates on the radio: such as "people who were told to evacuate from area ABC can now safely return, or can expect to safely return in 2 days, or people from area A can return but not those from areas B and C, or we will let you know at 8:00PM when you can safely return" 4) If you are the dj of the ONLY radio station that can be heard 100 miles away and there's been such a disaster, don't just get only the radio with "updates" to say only "we have major power outages"; provide whatever detail you can, such as "outages appear to be in areas A, B, and C;or scattered throughout and there is flooding in neghborhhods ABC or scattered throughout", whatever. And the city officials should be gathering this info from emergency agencies and communication providers and the power company. The problem is that there are thousands of people dislocated from home with no power, phone service, or internet, or tv, who have NO idea if they should return home today, or plan to stay 3 days, and can't find out anything of any substance from the only source they have- that radio. I left to return home late morning due to not being able to find a place in that town that accepted pets, had power, and had a vacancy. I got half way home (and let's not mention traffic headed back that way right now), and stopped at a hotel. This is the cheapest hotel chain there is and I got gouged. But I'm here, in AC and with communications because I have no idea if I can get home, if my neighborhood is flooded (although it appears there's a huge chance it is) or if I have power and communications there (and I would assume they are out). I tried to get news from the website of a tv station in my hometown but they have high-tech videos of everything instead of "words" and this hotel hifi is too slow to let it load and run, so I'm still in the dark, so-to-speak, about conditions there. It wouldn't matter except this is not paid time off work and I have to make the time up IF my street is flooded and the hhouse has no power. If it does have power and I could get to it, then I have to use vacation time. And of course, the hotel is my bill even when told to evacuate. I'll get there tomorrow am. But I need a shower and to do laundry. I can do the shower here but it won;t last until Tuesday, obviously. And here I am spending time off feeling like it's all wasted instead of being able to get the dogs to the vet and seeing an attny re difficult child/PO stuff, as I so desparately need to do. It's taking this site about 3 mins to load every time I click on a thread or forum. Argghhhh!!! Does everyone want to get together and say "YOU ARE GROUTCHY" now? LOL!! Yes, I most certainly am today. [/QUOTE]
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