New Natural Disaster! 8/27/2011 Hurricane Irene

Sat Aug 27 02:23:36 UTC 2011

> The US Airforce has sent most of the fighters from the East Coast to
> Indiana, what are you doing to prepare for the storm of the next 2 days?
> Ready, Set, DISCUSS!

I'm probably the only one on the list from Southeastern Virginia 
(Norfolk/Virginia Beach Area.) It's expected to be here tomorrow morning 
early.

Storm prep is mostly moving equipment from low lying areas that are 
likely to get flooded. I'm sure the cellular companies are on standby with 
generators for the sites that don't have permanant ones, if the fiber 
network holds up.

In past storms our region has lost much of the metro fiber business 
network from Cox due to power outages and lack of optical bypass switches 
and other issues.

Previous storms that looked like they were bad were nothing.

Others that looked like nothing caused huge amounts of outages.

Time will tell!