Tuesday, September 16, 2008

To Evacuate or Not to Evacuate That is the Question!

I work in a nursing facility in Mount Pleasant, and I love my co-workers and the residents a lot. I guess that I can go out on a limb and say that most days I really love my job. However, the past few weeks have been very stressful with the threat of upcoming hurricane's and possible evacuations.
For instance, when the rumor of Hanna hitting our area surfaced my department had to contact, explain, and console family members on the evacuation procedures if and when it came to that point. Our building must be evacuated for anything more than a category 2 hurricane, for someone like myself who stayed here during hurricane Hugo a category 2 is something to sleep through.
Needless to say I contacted one family member who cried and felt guilty that they could not be with their loved one during the storm, I was only the phone for 15 minutes. I felt like a telemarketer! That week feels like a blur because I didn't get any work done for performing all of the phone calls and contacting all of the family members 2 and 3 times to update them on the situation.
I am hoping that the rest of hurricane season is a quiet one so that I don't have to spend any more days on the phone with family members. I know that I was not meant to be a telemarketer because I think that was the most amount of consecutive headaches that I have ever had!

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