Power is out at my house, as it is on parts of campus and at homes and apartment complexes around town. So this will be a very short Daily Deac so I can conserve laptop battery.
We are feeling the aftereffects of Zeta, with lots of rain and wind today. The University sent out a message about the unstable weather this morning, as well as an update. Classes were canceled around midday today because of the weather conditions and power outages; read it here. Fortunately, the quarantine hotels were unaffected as of the time of posting this blog.
To give context on what we are seeing, I live 3 miles from school, and we are experiencing rain and wind, but nothing too terrible. We just have a lot of power lines around where I live that are not buried underground, hence the power outages. Am told there was a tree that fell somewhere along the Reynolda Road entrance too. So it is a good day for your Deacs to stay indoors.
Our Call Center is trying to function as normally as we can today from 10 am-3 pm at 336-758-7500. Our callers are all working from home, so some of them may have power or internet issues. We will do our best to answer as long as we have laptop battery, and you can also leave an email at https://ourwayforward.wfu.edu/get-involved/share-your-thoughts/. For urgent requests after hours (i.e. things that cannot wait until the next business day), visit our After Hours page. The Call Center will run tomorrow from 10 am-3 pm and Saturday and Sunday from 10 am-2 pm assuming that we have power (and our laptops are recharged).
A prescheduled program note I had set up to mention today: International Education Week is coming up November 16-20. We hope your Deacs will take advantage of this robust set of programs and activities that are planned. One of the special extras that week is that students can listen daily at 5 pm for Dr. Joshua Ziesel of the University Counseling Center (UCC) who will be playing different countries’ national anthem on the carillon bells.
