As the remnants of Hurricane Harvey continued causing record rains and unprecedented flooding in Houston Monday, many general counsel based in the city were working from home or elsewhere to make sure their employees were safe and their businesses were moving forward.

Dianne Ralston, executive vice president and chief legal officer of TechnipFMC, said those executives who still had power, as she did, were working from home. Ralston said offices in flooded downtown Houston were closed, and so were manufacturing facilities south of the city, in order to assure that workers would not venture out on dangerous roads to try to get there.