RE: Operations: where are you going to sit?

A moderately well-known lurker has asked me to post this into the discussion: NOC crew are 'utility' personnel, like power control guys; in a natural emergency you might get stuck with two shifts of people in the building; this requires a) that you have a place to put them, and b) that you have policies that take care, in advance, of those employees' personal needs (family evac, boarding up, etc). These guys are expensive; if you want their full attention during the hurricane, you better make sure you have $8 an hour flunkies out helping their wife. Oh yeah; emergency sustenance supplies in the NOC, too.