Yes. It's no different here.
When I looked at the calendar a year or two ahead, I knew darn well I would be gone 26 weeks of the year.
My wife and I have been married for 39 years. There was no difference in our household. Kevin Waugh was gone at eight in the morning—I was a school board trustee—and Kevin Waugh came home at 12:20 in the morning. I served the community.
You would have served the community as a weatherman.