Sandy effect on Techexams members?

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Hi all,
Over the past week we've witnessed the devastation of hurricane Sandy on the US east coast. I'm actually in the southwest where the most annoying weather factors were drought and santa ana winds, but they're small matters compared to the misery from mid-atlantic to new england right now. I wonder if any members of the TE forum were personally affected by Sandy? What's your story? (I'm aware if you live in a blackout region you probably won't be reading this message for a while).
Sandy as a natural disaster was probably something every IT professional could relate to --- outages at the NOC, disaster recovery, business continuity, safety, security, management and contingency reserves, etc... oy!
Over the past week we've witnessed the devastation of hurricane Sandy on the US east coast. I'm actually in the southwest where the most annoying weather factors were drought and santa ana winds, but they're small matters compared to the misery from mid-atlantic to new england right now. I wonder if any members of the TE forum were personally affected by Sandy? What's your story? (I'm aware if you live in a blackout region you probably won't be reading this message for a while).
Sandy as a natural disaster was probably something every IT professional could relate to --- outages at the NOC, disaster recovery, business continuity, safety, security, management and contingency reserves, etc... oy!
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Personally: Just about all my family lives in and around NYC, so it's been a little nerve wracking. My cousin in Long Island sent me a text yesterday with an update of he has found and who he hasn't. He was planning on making it into the city today to check on everyone else, but that would include all 5 boroughs, so I don't think he'll be able to do it in one day.
Down by my parts we've been rocked by Katrina, Gustav, and Isaac in the past 7 years so if there's one thing I can tell you, you just have to pick up the pieces and continue on. If you love where you live you will rebuild no matter what type of buffoons get on the soapbox.
Professionally: We have a ton of offices out in that area but we got away without damage.
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LoL Same for us. Our hosted provider has some stuff in NY that was flooded. Mind you we're on the west coast, so when my boss came in to complain, i jokingly said "Welcome to the Cloud!". He is a BIG advocate of cloud based applications but i think we may get a little more on premise budget after this.
FWIW I still heart the cloud.
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It's actually required by most mortgage companies if you house is located even remotely near a flood zone. We're in a "zone 4" which basically is a "worst case" scenario flood area.
Of course we found out the hard way that our insurance doesn't cover personal belongings or finished basements. Only the structure itself, and utilities (hot water / furnace).
With that said, I would have minimal coverage as the threat of it happening is lower. I would expect people in the south have more coverage because they expect this type of things.
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I listened to a report on NPR the other day re what they called "concurrent causation" or "concurrent disaster". Insurance companies would likely point out that your property damage was caused by timing and multiple factors, so having flood insurance alone won't cover anything.
Also, some have said Sandy wasn't officially a hurricane by the time it swerved in land. Might be something else to consider if the insurance guys and gals started enforcing the bottom lines.