New designation: hurricane parent

northwesty
Mon, 03 Sep 2012 01:22:03 +0000

A hurricane is unpredictable, so hindsight is 20/20. And no one was in any kind of danger at any point.

Since a campus evacuation basically means a week closure minimum, I got the feeling that TU wanted to keep the kids close by so they could possibly re-start classes on Thurs and Fri.

I suspect many more kids (including my kid) would have bailed if told “TU has some amount of backup power, but only enough to keep a few buildings lit up at any one time. So if the whole campus goes out, your dorm may not have any power.”

My kid was excited to stay for a couple of days of forced frosh fun. It seemed stupid to leave since she thought her dorm had its own back up power supply. I was surprised when she told me that, since that would involve a LOT of back-up capacity. When the lights went out Tuesday night, she obviously found out what the real story was.