Re: Computer backup via desktop drives (was Re: WHY???)

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George Shirley wrote:

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Wasn't fire or flood that ate my data, it was a bad computer
system. My external hard drives can easily be stored elsewhere
but are here in my office, in my home. When Hurricane Rita was
headed for us I shut down and disconnected the computers and took
the external hard drives with me. Best I could do at the time.
Load wife, dog, supplies, hard drives in the truck and head north
quickly. Can still do it.


You did the best you could in the time you had.

I remember your mails around that time... it was scary:(

It was scary for us too. No way we could load up over forty years
of the detritus of married life and take it with us. Now all the
family photos have been scanned, CD's sent to each kid, others in
the safety deposit box, etc. What do you do with forty-year-old
childrens' drawings that my wife has cherished all these years?
They're just things but things she and I love. Plus, that was the
first time in nearly 68 years of living that I had run from a
hurricane. Too many years in industrial emergency services could
have gotten me killed. I always made sure the wife and children got
to a safe place but it was my job to stay and safeguard the plants
I worked in and the people who were "riding it out." Wife had a
lovely way of putting things straight, "You old fool, get in the
car and let's go." LOL


Hehe you can't argue with that:)))



And here we are two years later looking at another bad hurricane
season. This time the car stays loaded and ready. The hell with the
stuff, we can always get more. Would miss all my preserves and such
though.


There might be another..??????????????????????

Oh George! How can you bear the worry of it??



I've lived on the Gulf Coast most of my life, we get used to it just
like folks in the MidWest get used to tornadoes. Hurricanes are a fact
of life and you learn how to protect yourself. Miz Anne rode out Carla
in September of 1961 in an 8X47 trailer house and she was expecting
our first child in December of that year. I was inside a chemical
plant that was surrounded by 14 feet of water and we were all looking
for a tall piece of equipment to climb if the levees broke.

Like I say, you get used to it but stay wary. She and our son rode out
Alan in 1980 in our home in Corpus Christi, TX when 130 mph winds hit.
As the building code said to build to withstand at least 125 mph winds
the house stood and we only lost several roof shingles. Once more I
was inside a chemical plant, ensuring the safety of the 50 or so
employees riding out the storm. As the utilities in that area are
buried we never lost electrical power or phone lines. I was talking
to her on the phone when our wind speed indicator broke, it was only
good up to 125 mph. Life goes on at its usual pace during hurricane
season, we just keep one ear on the radio or an eye on the TV in case
we get a warning. Just keep the emergency generator ginning and the
food stockpiled. We can feed our improvident neighbors if need be. <G>

Hmmm lucky them:))


Well I guess life is never boring:)))))) Just you keep fighting through it
and mailing here:))

O x


I was watching a special on building hurricane and tornado proof housing. They profiled one guy in Bermuda who'd done such a thing and his home is a fortress. It's right on the coast and it's withstood every hurricane that's ripped through Bermuda in the last three decades.

You can buy materials that won't tear apart in high winds. I also read a nice article about the guy who works for Stanley I believe that invented a nail that will NOT rip out of wood. That's the cause of much of the damage. This nail goes in and stays in.

This house had eight cracked or broken ceiling joists and sixteen cracked, split, or broken rafters. All were repaired and all reachable ceiling joists were tied down to the header plate with "hurricane straps." Building a wind-proof building is extremely expensive and out of reach of most of us.

On top of the damage our insurance increased the hurricane deductible to $6500.00 (comes off the top of the repair bill) and doubled our annual premium. It's not like they haven't made money off of us over the seventeen years we've owned this house. Our storm damage repairs ran a tad over $16K and our cost was about $3K out of that. House looks better than it did before the storm. I guess a new roof and more paint makes things look better. Our street is only about six blocks long and only three of the houses on it have the same roof they had before the storm. Most damage was caused by falling trees, ours was strictly wind damage. Forty-year old neighborhood looks bare without our trees. We lost a 400-year old white oak that, luckily, only struck the power pole and ripped out our power head and the meter pot. About eight feet in diameter at the base, it would have destroyed any house it fell on. Sometimes you're lucky, sometimes you're not.

George

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