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Hurricane Irene Threatens US Northeast; Cover Your Assets
jfruhlinger writes "Hurricane Irene is bearing down on the heavily populated U.S. Northeast Corridor. If you work in IT, you know that there are few things that are worse for electronics than water; so, what's your plan? Tom Henderson has come up with a checklist, which sensibly includes backing everything up, twice; not that you have time for it now, but for future reference you might want to consider just moving your whole data center to a location that's been conveniently pre-hardened, like a water tower or a boiler room." Note that Irene has been no joke in the Caribbean; in Puerto Rico (with relatively modern infrastructure), about a third of the island lost power.
I don't worry about Hurricanes, I have TornadoGuard on my iPhone.
No one in Puerto Rico panics like they do in the US when it comes to Hurricanes. 99.9% of buildings are concrete.
My grand parents live down there and went a whole month without power and electricity during the 2004 hurricanes. They have a cistern in the back that collects rain water in case the water supply gets tainted and generators in case electricity goes out.
Lots of people do and live with it. Hurricanes and mudslides are no problem for us.
Previewing comments are for sissies!
The virtual world has no natural disasters!
Just virtualize your virtual servers so your system is 100% virtual with no hardware, and you have a completely unusable system that can't be damaged because it doesn't exist! Wait, what was the question again? ...to the cloud!
As a Texan, I consider New York to be part of New England, They're all yanks to me.
That's ok. We think of Texas as a part of Mexico.
Our IT guys assured us we are OK. Cheetos absorb 47 times their weight in water.
Have gnu, will travel.
If you cannot restore your backups without an Internet connection, you do not have backups.
Go green: turn off your refrigerator.
Wood is a shitty construction material.
Tell that to all the people in Haiti, who still haven't recovered from the earthquake there a couple years ago. Or the people in various other 3rd-world cities where everything's made of concrete and they didn't think earthquakes were a concern until one hit.
Concrete is a terrible construction material, unless you reinforce it with a lot of steel. But steel's expensive compared to plain concrete.