Natural Disaster Attention floridians & surrounding areas: take irma seriously

[hodge]

Too bad we're not neighbors. I love dog-sitting and do it for one of my friends/neighbors quite often.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

I can't tell why Altamonte Springs is out of power still. Everytime I try to get info it drains my battery super fast. This is the only site that seems to not drain it that fast. Tomorrow it's going to be hotter! :( I'm scared for the animals. I hope they're ok with a cool floor, couch, and a lot of water!

 

[hodge]

Lost, I like your plan to come home early tomorrow and call in. It would be different if you didn't have furbabies, but you do.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

@hodge, I didn't mean come home early. I meant I called them and they first said they would mark me off for the day (not looking at sick time) then I changed it to coming in late but that was about not having an alarm. If this non-activated phone wakes me up on time with it's horrible ringtones, then I will be at work on time. If I am to leave early and it not count against me, I personally have to be directly affected by this hurricane. On Sunday it was getting too bad to drive in so they let me leave. If I say it's too hot for my dog they will look at me like I have two heads. Most of them have animals but it's not a direct affect on me. And I'm new so I don't have hardly any sick time saved up. I used 3 hrs of it on Sunday so I'll have to look on my last check stub or on the intranet when I get there. If I have it then that's doable but if I don't then it's not.

ETA: I could lie about the hurricane impact but I think I already ruined that by saying "no, I'll come in, I'm just not sure I have an alarm clock to wake me to be there on time".

 

[hodge]

Maybe someday enough humans will evolve to the point where it's completely acceptable to take time off to take care of animals in such an emergency situation -- meaning you have no power, no AC, cripes. :-(

 

[EveHarrington]

It's just sickening.

Companies not giving people time off. Other companies firing employees for not showing up in the face of an evacuation. Good god, the almighty buck trumps human life! Just sickening.

 

[Deleted member 37474]

Having just been through Harvey and still dealing with the emotional, physical and financial mess it has caused, my heart goes out to the people that went through Irma. Whether someone had major or minimal damage to family, pets and property, the stress is very real. The fear is horrible and the feeling of being trapped doesn't go away. Just absorbing what happened to your town or other people is traumatizing. My T told me today, that the mental recovery from this is going to take a long, long time. @lostforgottensoul, please don't feel bad about your feelings just because worse things happened to other people. Your reality sucks right now. It is hard living different than your normal. Not everyone is equipped to make lemonade out of lemons. Some of us need to vent and feel bad about our situation to heal. It doesn't mean we aren't concerned for others or being ungrateful for ending up "better than most." It just means that we are humans with ptsd.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

Thank you @TexCat! I do feel horrible for the ones that got it worse but I also feel super alone right now. Very helpless, very disabled as I am heat sensitive and pass out from the heat, and very panicked, fearful, hypervegelent, hyper-everything. And it seems to be snowballing the longer it goes.

ETA: And I am super worried of either one of my animals going out the window and not knowing how to get back in. Chopper most especially as he can jump the door where the screen is broken or get on the chair by another section. But if I lower it and lock it to a point where he can't get out it reduces air flow by 2/3 meaning he will only get one 3rd the air flow. I decided against that but I am super worried. He doesn't care about dogs barking and stuff anymore. He is more concerned with these kids out here yelling like they need help and the sounds of possible break in.

Anyway, leaving for work now and will worry so bad all day!

 

[Deleted member 37474]

Thank you @TexCat! I do feel horrible for the ones that got it worse but...

You will be okay, I promise! At some point you will get your power back, both figuratively and physically! And eventually life will be normal again. In the mean time... My T told me to limit my watching of the news. I still have trouble driving over creeks or bayous without feeling panic. I worry about my friends' safety way more than normal and annoyingly ask/need them to check in with me. I have some students and friends that are displaced and helping them should make me feel warm inside but it creates a whole new level of anxiety. Hurricanes are really destructive and disruptive and really suck!!!

 

[lostforgottensoul]

I went out to go to work and there is a sewer drain spewing sewer water and flooding our parking lot with sewer water and the apartment office is closed. I can't figure out who to report that to. I will try to call maintance at lunch but with just a 30 min lunch, I am limited on what I can do.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

At some point you will get your power back

Estimated restoral time (they FINALLY gave us one) is Sun the 17th at midnight. I believe it said the 17th as if it's the following Sun I will loose my mind! But that's a f*cking week. A week of wearing dirty clothes to work as I cannot wash them!

 

[Deleted member 37474]

Estimated restoral time (they FINALLY gave us one) is Sun the 17th at midnight. I believe it...

Hand wash and hang dry the important stuff. It will be okay. You are safe. You will get through this.