Hurricane Emergency News

Deerfield Beach

8:00AM Wednesday 8/30/06

Tropical Storm Ernesto has passed thru S. Florida and the Deerfield Beach office will be up a running with limited staffing on Wednesday August 30. We hope that all employees and families are safe and did not experience any damage to their homes and families.

  1. We did not lose power in the Deerfield Beach Office.
  2. The computer network, voice mail, and telephones will be up and operational by 10:00 AM pending any further storm outages.
  3. We will have a limited staff in the Deerfield Beach office and warehouse and the switchboard will not be open.
  4. Sales Representatives will continue to use WESS order transmissions and cutoff will remain at 3:00 PM for Wednesday August 30th
  5. Drivers will not report to work. No truck deliveries will be made on Wednesday August 30th
  6. Office and Administrative staff should report to work (casual attire) on Wednesday if possible.
  7. Day Warehouse employees should report to work on Wednesday if possible. “Will call” will be open for emergency customer orders.
  8. The Night Shipping Department will report to work at 6:00 PM Wednesday evening as scheduled to load trucks for Thursday delivery.
  9. Normal business schedule on Thursday, August 31st 5:00PM cut-off
    1. We will load and deliver all orders for Thursday and Friday. Any special delivery request need to be phoned into the Road Net extension 627.
    2. Month end WESS cutoff will be Saturday Sept 2nd at 2:00PM.

If anyone did experience any storm damage please contact Gus Menendez or Mike Medina and let us know if we can help in any way. Thank you.