To be fair, I check a number of different forecast sites (including Windy) and follow a lot of different weather bloggers but no one knew this storm was a thing until a few days ago. And all of the models had it as a Cat 2 until yesterday.
I live in a part of town affected by one of the pump outages. In any other city in the country this would be shocking and whatnot. Here it’s an opportunity to lampoon the local government because that’s all we have.
I worked at GE when this was done. Because a lot of things decided what was GE/not GE based on coming from a 3.x address it caused chaos. They called it 3-dot-geddon
I have to use Ping ID quite a bit to log into customers' systems. I also live in south Louisiana.
The last 5 months have been extremely difficult to maintain focus because, for me at least, it's really difficult for my brain to not check tropical forecasts every time I look at my phone.
I've noticed that my productivity triples when there are no storms in the gulf due to the fact that it's much easier to maintain my attention on engineering tasks. I've thought of setting up a second phone that I have with ONLY ping on it, but I feel that it's the stress driving me to check the tropics, and if I took the time to create a 'just ping' device my mind would find another way to compulsively check.
I contacted apple support and got a new pair. Free (with credit card hold until I sent the defective pair back).
So far so good.
But if it happens again... yeah not sustainable.
I work for a company based in a major west coast city from a non-major city in the southeast.
My employer has different buckets it puts cities in and then limits your base pay based on those buckets.
Even with that limitation, my compensation is much higher than what I would make at a local company but not the rate I would get in a 'premium' market.
The most impactful benefit for me is I get to work on $big_city problems with $big_city talent. $Small_town problems and the $small_town talent are mind-numbing and deeply frustrating to work with