A bomb threat is definately something to worry about, though.
Once upon a time, while talking with a customer about a particular LA datacenter's fault tolerant features (you know, generators, UPS, HVAC, diverse fiber entrances, etc...), they very calmly asked me what procedures we had in place in the event that a major earthquake struck the southland and dropped LA into the ocean or otherwise put the city underwater. I told them very bluntly that if an earthquake of that magnitude were to hit LA, I would *not* be overly concerned with their servers/circuit/etc., assuming I was still breathing. They were quite taken aback. ;)
I guess I should have been more clear. I'm not talking about nuclear bombs. I was talking about regular explosives (for lack of better wording) - pipe bombs and the latter. The type of quake you are talking about is up in the nuclear-bomb stratosphere, and that's not something that would keep me up at night worrying. Plus, I live on the east coast. We don't have to worry about these things called earthquakes for the most part. ;-) Rachel -- Women and elephants never forget. - Dorothy Parker
At 10:38 AM -0700 8/28/01, Rachel Warren wrote:
A bomb threat is definately something to worry about, though.
Once upon a time, while talking with a customer about a particular LA datacenter's fault tolerant features (you know, generators, UPS, HVAC, diverse fiber entrances, etc...), they very calmly asked me what procedures we had in place in the event that a major earthquake struck the southland and dropped LA into the ocean or otherwise put the city underwater. I told them very bluntly that if an earthquake of that magnitude were to hit LA, I would *not* be overly concerned with their servers/circuit/etc., assuming I was still breathing. They were quite taken aback. ;)
I guess I should have been more clear. I'm not talking about nuclear bombs. I was talking about regular explosives (for lack of better wording) - pipe bombs and the latter. The type of quake you are talking about is up in the nuclear-bomb stratosphere, and that's not something that would keep me up at night worrying.
Plus, I live on the east coast. We don't have to worry about these things called earthquakes for the most part. ;-)
Think again (it's a common misconception ...): http://tlc.discovery.com/tlcpages/greatquakes/greatquakes_vulnerable.html Peter
Rachel
-- Women and elephants never forget. - Dorothy Parker
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:38:13AM -0700, Rachel Warren wrote:
Plus, I live on the east coast. We don't have to worry about these things called earthquakes for the most part. ;-)
Until one hits, then (for ex) Boston is in deep trouble... http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/report/news/january7/bostonquake.html -- John Payne http://sackheads.org/jpayne/ john@sackheads.org http://sackheads.org/uce/ Fax: +44 870 0547954 To send me mail, use the address in the From: header
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