Still frightfully busy at work (we moved a bunch of sites to the Charlotte data center and broke email in the process—sigh) but on the plus side, Tropical Storm Ernesto will probably remain Tropical Storm Ernesto [1] and not get any stronger. It's also passing a bit west of us (still over Florida, but up through the middle of the state) so we'll probably get little more than a bad storm here.
In any case, Spring [2], The Kids and Wlofie are staying at Negiyo (her workplace, and hurricane shelter rated) while I'm going to stay here at Casa New Jersey and hold down the fort (and had Ernesto been a Class-3 monster I probably wouldn't stick around here myself).
Turns out the email issue was a firewall issue, in that the POP (Post Office Protocol) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) services were being blocked.
Sigh.
So much for my checklist [3].
[1] http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCDAT5+shtml/292045.shtml