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What an awesome time to brainstore and write some good content.
I should know, I live in South Florida also :)
Hoping things aren't as bad as they maybe could be....
I know my site can probably get by without me for a few days, hopefully it'll only be a few days, but what would you guys do?
Uhm, back up all my files onto a removable drive, then cower with it in the basement? =)
As for Jamaica, it was barely a tropical storm, none-the-less I am sure they had considerable damage. I feel for the people in Cuba, who were nice enough to allow NOAA fly-overs to gauge the storm.
And for my fellow Floridians, good luck and God speed (whatever God you may worship).
[edited by: netscan at 3:26 am (utc) on Aug. 13, 2004]
lash yourself to the roof
dont worry about backing up your site if your going to do this.
As for Jamaica, it was barely a tropical storm
Ahh.. I forgot, it's always a much bigger deal if it happens in the US.
Nonetheless, Jah guide and protect. I hope you all fare well.
It is to us Americans... we kind of live there.
The hurricane's outter band is less than 1 hour from the keys right now... Let the fun begin..
Funny thing how msg #10 proved your point by trying to rebut isn't it?
:)
You know your priorities are messed up when you breakout all the spare laptop batteries and start charging them up AND THEN go and fill the water bottles, and flashlight batteries. ;)
In the same boat here.
You know your priorities are messed up when you breakout all the spare laptop batteries and start charging them up AND THEN go and fill the water bottles, and flashlight batteries. ;)
LOL. Same here. I'm hoping I can find somewhere where I can buy an extra laptop battery in the morning. I suppose I should stock up on the other th ings too... :)
In the same boat here.
You know your priorities are messed up when you breakout all the spare laptop batteries and start charging them up AND THEN go and fill the water bottles, and flashlight batteries. ;)
LOL. Same here. I'm hoping I can find somewhere where I can buy an extra laptop battery in the morning. I suppose I should stock up on the other things too... :)
Be carefull!
(First thing I did was charge both my batteries as well)
Anyway, this does bring up a good point. During the blackout, my email was down, due to my mail server being without power in Ontario. "Off-site backup" these days should mean it, I'm thinking off-continent back-up wouldn't be too crazy an idea. Not sure how to deal with web servers though - there has got to be ways to keep them going on another server too, even if that requires a few minutes to an hour for DNS to propagate.
Ranting now... anyhow, good luck folks!
That is an interesting idea... A host in the EU and the US could be nice...
On another front, my husband spent 12 hours fighting a fire 8 miles from here last night, wind blowing about 40 mph this direction (ESE) - volunteer fire dept. we're talking here, and he'll be 70 this month, so I've not been real thrilled even though he's a remarkably young, fit and healthy 70. Just now, we have a call out 4 miles from here in the campground area, where there are probably 500 people who have NO CLUE what to do, and he's on his way to help out again.... *sigh*
You gotta do what you gotta do. But it's not making me really happy....
(Off-site.... well, all my stuff "lives" in Victoria BC. In 5 years, they've been down ONE TIME, for less than 24 hours. This was when a fire in the building but not on their floor fritzed all of the electricals....)
By now, early Saturday, the worst will be over, so hope to hear from you all real soon ... that you're OK and your batteries are holding out!
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I didn't evacuate, if I would have I would have gone inland towards Orlando like the local governments were telling everyone to do, now Orlando got slamed and the 1 million people that evacuated the costal areas were caught in the storm inland.
We had evacuations ordered well over 24 hours in advance, the people in the Naples, Sarasota and most importantly Punta Gorda had litterally less than an hour of warning that the storm was going to make landfall in their area instead of mine. The storm turned, gained in intensity with winds going from 110 MPH to 145 MPH, and sped up by 4 MPH in minutes.
It is unreal the feeling of extreme relief I felt yesterday when the storm turned, and then immediately followed by great sorrow for the people that were going to take my place.
