Depends on the emergency and where I'm at - if the EQ happens while at work, I'll stay until my co-workers are safe, injuries treated etc. I intend to be available for local response with the skills I have at least in my building at work until that's done with. I have no plans to immediately high tail it the 7 miles home over impassable roads. I may not make it home to wife and kids for 24 hours or so. I have an emergency comm plan to assess the safety of my home, my immediate and extended family (including out of area contacts and means for communication - ham radio, landline, and texting etc). In the wrong EQ, a lot is going to be messed up. Take a breath, and don't forget the disaster right at your front door. If I'm at home when it happens, I'll see to the safety of my family and neighbors, and then turn to my Red Cross duties, checking in with my status.

When I get home, my next duty is to the Red Cross - while we don't expect to deploy immediately, its part of my volunteer job to rally available volunteers county wide to open shelters, provide mobile feeding and feeding stations, bulk distribution etc etc, working with county OEM and the rest of the Red Cross to determine mass care priorities and our capabilities to answer them. That will start up within 72 hours, and if the disaster gods willing some of it will come sooner than that. If the bridges survive I'll go to the RC EOC in Seattle and live there for a while; if not, I'll work remote as much as I can - we have some preliminary plans to deploy locally if there is a need, so I may not have to reach the chapter in Seattle in order to know where I can go to be of help to the response. It all depends on how much of the comms network survives the disaster.

I have no plan to return to my daytime workplace, at least as long as the Red Cross needs me - I have no duties or responsibilities that would require me to be at work in such a disaster.