11 Quakes, Cat4 Hurricane, and a Pastrami Sandwich.

Well got back after lunch today and saw that the hurricane is offically down to a Category 4 huricane, which is definately a blessing - be nice if it just disappeared all together, but doesn’t look like that’s going to be happening any time soon. The internet connections here at home, the office, and shortly at companies in town who’s servers I manage - will all be pegged out for a few hours. I am currently downloading at about 6 megabit, which is fast, but sadly still not getting stuff as quickly as I’d like, but the good thing is I am getting offsite backups running smoothly to my drives around town.

As I was talking to folks online about the effect of the hurricane on the servers, I was gently rolled sideways in my chair! I felt was about a 2-3.0 quake, but as I am looking at the USGS’s website, it has 11 (oops now 12) quakes/aftershocks ranging from as low as 0.6->4.9 today, I am of course only really counting quakes form the 4.0/4.9 as that was felt here, and MSNBC noted to as far as LA. So things are shakin here

As for the pastrami sandwich, it was excellent - lunch was good, and I am still here working away, moving backups, rsyncing to 3rd party services, etc. working to get things safely backed up off-site should Texas get hit hard and require me to relocate clients elsewhere - continued prayers are still appriciated for my crew who’s on call, as well as the crews on-call at the datacenters who will be working to keep things online and operational.