Zuri
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Reminds me of a snowstorm where I live ... in a metro area in the South that shut the city down completely for two days . I believe it may have been in 1983?
I was working in one of the premier hospitals here in the area. The hospital let everybody go at 2:30 pm but they misjudged and the blizzard snow storm hit earlier than expected by the administration and I couldn't even get out of the parking deck due to snow . I worked in the medical laboratory at the time.
There were about 8 of us who were stranded... horror stories of the other people that took 13 hours to get home.
We 8 banded together and decided we were going to have a fun time in the hospital and on the grounds of the university where the hospital was. ( for those in the know you have figured out it is Emory by now lol).
The first thing we did was decided we needed provisions. So off we go to the campus place nearby where we bought beer and toothbrushes . LOTS OF BEER !!! You know the essentials when you're 23!!! ( remember this was when we were in our twenties and the 1980s was a different time).
Then we went with beer in hand to find the Presidents house. The house was on campus and had a great Hill for sledding. We partied until about 12:30 am playing, sledding with all the university students and then going back to the hospital cafeteria which was still open all night to get something to eat .
Then we headed to the director's office and sat in his office drinking beer and talking about stories of the night. As we left his office we made a pyramid on his desk of the empty beer cans!!!!
Then we were running around upstairs to find blankets and pillows and slept on the floor of the director and other executives. I think we will finally tried to go to sleep at about 5 o'clock in the morning
7 o'clock comes for our shift and we are ALL hungover.( I did tell you this was when I was in my twenties, as were most of my coworkers, and it was in the eighties lol ). But we were up and at 'em and had to get rid of our hangovers and lack of sleep very quickly and work hard as only about 3 could get in that day that had gone home. Very very much a skeleton crew!! and I'm sure we all reeked of alcohol :giggle: (but we did not have any patient interaction)
I haven't thought about it in a long time but it makes me laugh thinking about it! Oh those were the days... Today we would have been fired for doing such a thing!!! Not only drinking and everybody knew it but leaving our evidence purposefully on his desk!!!
Oh yeah .... And for the rest of the story ....the director never mentioned that 4 feet high pyramid of beer cans that was on his office desk that he found when he finally made it in that day. he publicly thanked us for staying and our efforts to ensure that the patients were taken care of
ETA ...Oh yeah .. The president of the university, his house was behind gates..NO ADMITTANCE !!. And he never complain that everybody jumped the gates and came to his house and on his grounds to go sledding either. There must have been a hundred people on his front yard that night lol
YES! The Blizzard of 1983. February! I think there was over 3 1/2 feet of snow which was unusual. I drove from Philadelphia to West Chester, PA which normally took an hour, took 3. I had to beg the charge RN to let me leave early from the CTICU as I watched the snow piling up outside on a city street corner.
They really are amazing. Especially because they are big bucks too with big antlers which makes the photos special. AMAZING.
In my head, I didn't know what IT was suppose to be, but I wanted IT to be spectacular- something no one had ever seen. Oh well... :sigh:
