What happens if a team can't make it to USTA League Nationals?

Let me start this post by saying my thoughts and prayers go out to all those in Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas who are having to deal with hurricane Ian.  I hope everyone is safe and those affected are able to recover quickly.

But, Nationals will go on and with keeping family and belongings safe being a higher priority than recreational tennis, and flights and other travel being disrupted, there is a chance some teams can't make it.  That begs the question of what happens to schedules and who plays who?

This has happened before where a team pulls out late after the schedule has been published, and it does get adapted.

One might think that since the schedule is random, removing a team would require redoing the whole schedule.  Thankfully, that has not been the case and the changes have been limited to a handful of teams.

For example, taking a hypothetical look at the 18 & Over 3.5 men to be played this weekend and starting tomorrow.  Should the Florida team not be able to make it here it was may happen.

Florida is scheduled to play Caribbean, Pacific Northwest, Missouri Valley, and Eastern.  So if they don't make it, these teams would all play only three matches.  The easy way to handle this is to just these teams play an additional match against each other.  PNW and MOValley already play each other so you don't want to have them play twice, but PNW could play Caribbean and MOValley play Eastern, and the schedule is otherwise preserved.

For the 3.5 women this weekend, Florida is scheduled to play Intermountain, Northern, New England, and MOValley.  Here Intermountain could play Northern and New England could play MOValley.

If two sections can't make it, it would get more complicated but a similar approach would likely be taken.

We'll see what happens, I'm sure the USTA is doing their best to help teams however they can and will adapt as needed.