In the middle of a Tuesday afternoon on the last day of May, the newsroom went dark.

Back in 2011, Roll Call was still very much a print-focused operation. We published, I think, 3 or 4 days a week when Congress was in session and delivered bundles of papers to the Capitol complex each morning. The middle of a Tuesday afternoon was also the middle of our print production cycle.

The power outage in a several block area around our new-ish office location at 77 K St. was nothing short of catastrophic.

Fourteen years ago, none of us had really given a lot of thought to remote work.

EVERYTHING was location based, and much of our work was stored on servers in the building that were now without power.

EVERYTHING in our office was now useless.

So all of a sudden on a Tuesday afternoon, we co

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