Fun fact about Florida. If you are an employee of the state government, you are required to be completely available to work shelters for any assigned state agency during a disaster. Seems like it makes sense at first until you realize that there are vulnerable people, who are used to their regular staff, who the state will not pay to work in shelters. I don’t think the state employees get paid, it’s mind blowing. But no state income tax has consequences I suppose.
@misslovelymess As a public employee in California, we are all "disaster service workers". I was acting as such for two years during Covid. But hell yeah, I was paid.
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Of course, here "disaster" always implied The Big One. Not, you know, a plague.
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(nods) (grimaces)
@LiberalLibrarian I worked with a team in Florida, and you couldn’t even say the word hurricane because what they experienced was so traumatic. They served one population, and were sent willy nilly to serve different populations. There was no structured plan for disaster response. It sounded awful.
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I guess that's true. I remember staff meetings at school where we were reminded that we would be expected to stay with the kids and not go home to our own children. It worked out for the most part because we knew our own kids were with their teachers.