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.
@elbutterfield @misslovelymess
Of course, here "disaster" always implied The Big One. Not, you know, a plague.
@LiberalLibrarian @misslovelymess
(nods) (grimaces)