I’m in Chicago, but have coworkers on the east coast - they were all online and responsive (well, the ones I deal with anyway) but they too all work from home.
After checking our intranet emergency management site, I can definitely say that all our NJ locations are shut down.
I do over nine tenths of work from home and wouldn’t have it any other way UNLESS I could have an office in my place as well with the right sorts, who did not rely on me (and obviously weren’t my boss or anything). I don’t think that job would exist.
Can spend most of my time browsing the internet looking at things, if things get really quiet I can go swimming, can get up 2 minutes before work starts… if you’re as lazy as me then you’d be mad not to. And I had a great office environment before. If you worked in a normal American office where people dislike each other, are constantly scared of saying the wrong thing, and everyone is scared of HR (not sure if that is true but it’s the impression I get from threads here) then I don’t know any reason at all not to work from home. Exercise maybe?
My family is in the volunteer business, They’re no doubt ‘working’ as medics, techs and firefighters in their town and neighboring towns as needed.
Other: Went in to work as usual, but left several hours early because my teenagers were home alone (wife was at a conference two states away) and the State Police were getting set to close the bridge I normally cross going to and from work. (Next bridge upriver would also have been closed, so I would have had to go about twenty miles north, on streets in an area I’m totally unfamiliar with, just to cross the river.)
Follow up:
My office is still shut down from the hurricane and will probably remain so for the next month.
Are you fucking kidding me?