I've been holding my family from leaving the house for an hour now. At this point, I'll have to leave in 5-10 minutes no matter what, making this 55 minutes of refreshing (and my family's annoyance) completely worthless.
I understand Element might have had a personal issue come up, but there needs to be some sort of rule in place that covers situations like this, because as PinkBox said, this isn't fair to the players.