Hurricane Andy is heading for New York City. The eye is forecasted to pass over Battery Park at 8:00 am Sunday morning with sustained wind of 120 mph...

Hurricane Andy is heading for New York City. The eye is forecasted to pass over Battery Park at 8:00 am Sunday morning with sustained wind of 120 mph and a 15 foot storm surge. 30 foot waves are forecasted for a radius of 200 nm from NYC starting Saturday morning. Waves for Friday are forecasted at 10 feet in the morning and 20 feet by the evening. NYC airports will close at noon on Saturday. The airlines are waiving the change fee and have the capacity to move 50% of Saturday’s traffic on Thursday and 50% on Friday. Norfolk, VA (290 nm from NYC) has space at their cruise terminal Friday and Saturday at $5,000 per day. Norfolk has 1,000 hotel rooms available at $100 per night (special cruise line rate). AMTRAK will run trains until 1:00 pm on Saturday. An 8 car train will carry 500 passengers and luggage (2 additional baggage cars) and can be chartered for $50,000 each way between NYC and Norfolk. New York to Norfolk takes 8 hours. The train can stop at BWI Airport. The Washington area airports are not affected by the storm. If you return to NYC on Thursday all your passengers can get home by Friday. Only 50% of your outgoing (those booked to sail on Saturday) passengers can leave on Thursday. An additional 25% can leave by noon on Friday. Only 5% more can reach NYC if you leave by noon on Saturday. The rebate for ending a cruise early is $100 per passenger per day. You are CEO of Lubin Good Time Cruises. You are meeting with your Crisis Management Committee in 5 hours. Your goals are to maintain passengers’ good will, safety of the ship, and minimize inconvenience and cost. What would you do?