Issued from the State:
State of Delaware offices in Sussex, New Castle and Kent counties will close today at noon. All non-essential state employees will be excused at that time. Non-essential employees scheduled to work shifts between noon Friday, August 26, 2011 and 5 p.m. Sunday, August 28, 2011 need not report. All essential employees are to remain at work and report for all scheduled shifts during this period.
I’m looking out my office window in New Castle County at 2:00pm, and it is mid-80′s, humid & sunny. I understand that it has just started raining in North Carolina. I recall former Governor Minner pulling a similar stunt, calling a state-of-emergency a good 24 hours before the weather turned. Perhaps due to the road configurations in Sussex County, we should let everyone go this afternoon, but Kent & New Castle Counties seems overkill. Your tax dollars might be at work, but the offices are empty…
The following is the weather report from the National Weather Service for Rehoboth beach:
This Afternoon: Scattered showers and thunderstorms. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Partly sunny, with a high near 86. Southeast wind around 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.Tonight: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 72. Southeast wind between 8 and 13 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Saturday: Tropical storm conditions expected, with hurricane conditions possible. Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. High near 81. East wind 24 to 29 mph increasing to between 29 and 39 mph. Winds could gust as high as 47 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.
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[...] to prepare for the storm and get to safety if they are under an evacuation order. Here is what the little shit Copeland had to say while wallowing in greedy ignorance: I’m looking out my office window in New Castle County at 2:00pm, and it is mid-80′s, humid [...]
Two New Castle County school districts have already closed for…. Monday. The rain hasn’t started yet and they are closing?
Charlie:
This is my first for your blog. I am concerned about Delaware’s Republican Party/. I’ve only spoken to you once. (good conversation)
I can see that Delaware Liberal is the first to post here and their post, is quite a partisan view.
yes it is really me Don Ayotte and not a pretender. I would ask you why we don’t have more jobs in Delaware, but i know the answer to that question.
what I am asking is will you absolutely support the republican candidates for The US House and Senate, no matter who they are. I know Pete DuPont did. He was the only one of th old guard, who did. He always had unbelievable insight!!
Atta boy, Charlie! You tell it like it is! Hurricanes are just another DemocRAT Liberal scheme to get all that disaster relief money and have a good time on the taxpayers’ dime.
If I had a job, I’d sure wish my boss would let ME go home early on sunny Friday afternoons.
There hasn’t been such an outrage since Scrooge gave Bob Cratchit some time off for Christmas.
Next time there is a so-called “natural disaster” we should just give ‘em some tax cuts and be done with it.
I’m sure they’ll make up the time next week…
A kerfuffle has erupted at the angry left’s Delaware internet redoubt. WordPress provides an email message when someone links to your blog post, and so I was able to respond, quickly, to those who harangue in the shadows on the extreme left fringe of Delaware’s political blogging.
But, while they were sniping to one another regarding my post about the Governor sending people in New Castle County home, I was at work. Members of my team and I spent the afternoon battening down the Associates International hatches. My business is located just outside of Southbridge, which Mayor Baker has mandated as an evacuation zone tomorrow afternoon.
50 families or so depend on Associates International being open for business on Monday. We have a leaky roof (the building is leased, and despite positive response from the landlord, they can’t afford a new roof any more than I can afford one), especially in high winds. If equipment is ruined, our network corrupt, the building uninhabitable, we’ve got serious problems. Our salaries, our benefits, our livelihoods come from our clients. They expect… no, they demand that we provide the best services in the industry. And we do.
This is a much different situation than those non-essential State employees who got to go home. Their job will be there on Monday… rain, sleet, snow, hail, or sunshine.
As a hard working member of the Delaware small business community who fights every day to sell marketing services and print in Delaware, the region and across the country; whose business has won over 30 quality awards in the last 3 years including 2 in Germany; who employs great, hardworking people who are providing for their families during a hugely tough economy; I have no apologies for expressing, in public, my opinion that the Governor sending home folks on a Friday afternoon is overkill in Kent & New Castle Counties.
Too bad the leftist fringe is incapable of civil, public, open discourse. They are a pitiable group. But then, readers of this blog probably knew that already.
Charlie,
It appears that the ‘children’ of a lesser blog have found your thought provoking, issue oriented forum. I am sorry for that. As a friend just pointed out to me, “what ails these people?”
I remember back in the 80′s, when I worked for the state, i used to love the 36
‘holidays’ we got, from long weekends to BS days like the famous, Day After Thanksgiving……then i went into business for myself, and found that those 36 days off, also make my services limited due to permits, information, etc to fulfill my responsibilities, then I joined the Chamber of Commerce.
Keep up the faith, speak the speak of the economic future of our area.