Rita Goes Skiing

[ctenidae]

Lest just hope that translates into the coldest January on record.

(And October, November, adn December. Hell, throw in February adn MArch, too.)

[awf170]

Originally Posted by ctenidae

Lest just hope that translates into the coldest January on record.

(And October, November, adn December. Hell, throw in February adn MArch, too.)

dont forget that along with cold, we need lots of snow and consistant temps

[Paul]

Rode out a 4 (Michelle, in 2001) in Grand Cayman. Nope, no joke, and we didn't even have the eye pass over. Spent the last half of my vacation helping with the clean-up effort. The Cayman Turtle Farm,http://www.turtle.ky/was breached, which meant as many people as possible running around chasing sea turtles (yeah, laugh, its not as easy as it sounds... :P ) and loading them into trucks.

Fun!

[loafer89]

My only hurricane experience was with hurricane Gloria in 1985. I distinctly remember the eye passing right over our house, the brief period of calm weather was amazing.

[zowi420]

Originally Posted by billski

Are skiers the only group who likes bad weather? There must be others, no?

Surfers love to go out when a storm is approaching. That is, until it gets so bad that they post cops along the beaches to arrest you.

[zowi420]

Originally Posted by billski

Are skiers the only group who likes bad weather? There must be others, no?

Surfers love to go out when a storm is approaching. That is, until it gets so bad that they post cops along the beaches to arrest you.

[Greg]

Just a quick comment that there's some potential that Hurricane Rita could affect AlpineZone.com directly. You see, our Web host, JaguarPC is located in Houston. The risk apparently is small, but you never know. I received this Email from them today:

Tuesday 20th of September 2005
Jaguar Technologies LLC
Houston, TX
http://www.jaguarpc.com
============================

Hello Gregory Blasko,
Hello,

This is a special newsletter to address certain concerns
that many of you have regarding Hurricane Rita that may be
heading towards the Houston Greater Area. We would like to
address some of these concerns and go over what each client
can do to be prepared.

There was actually a thread in aftermath of the recent
Katrina hurricane in our forums that discusses this issue as
well.

http://jaguarpc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12784

Our preparedness/recovery plan includes instructions and
procedures for our people and internal systems. As we are
out of all flood plains and we are 60 miles north of a
direct hit, we have been advised that the reinforced roof
fasteners rated at 90 miles per hour would be sufficient.

We did a study and in the past 33 years (including a level 5
hurricane) the maximum wind speed in our zip code was
reported at 69 miles per hour. We feel that we have done a
good job at mitigating risk but that's not to say we don't
plan on just not ever experiencing a disaster.

Depending on the scenario we would take different measures,
at different locations. Should something unpredictable or
uncontrollable occur clients could find your sites served
out of Dallas rather quickly.

While we do maintain daily current backups we insist that
every client maintain their own copy of an updated version
of your sites, databases, and anything you deem as critical
to your site or business.

Some statistical information:
JaguarPC is over on the west side of town, near Bellaire.
That makes JaguarPC about an hour from Galveston.

In Houston, what we call a "direct hit" would be where it
makes land fall right on Galveston. JaguarPC is quite far
from that location so we wouldn't be affected too badly. In
June 2001 flooding from Tropical Storm Allison put every
major roadway in the city underwater. This data center was
used a refuge for other businesses to get back up and
running since it was not affected. JaguarPc is outside of
the 500yr flood plain here in Houston.

This is not say that nothing will happen, so it's best to be
prepared, but we do not expect much of a problem at this time.

JaguarPC has successfully implemented a full-scale emergency
management plan for hurricane Rita. The company is
monitoring all severe weather threats and taking the
potential storm very seriously. JaguarPC's Emergency
Management Team is ensuring all areas in the Emergency

Management Plan (DR/BC plan) are being addressed including,
but not limited to:

Facilities: The facility is outside evacuation areas. All
generator tanks have been "topped off" and additional fuel
will be delivered on Thursday and Friday to our location.
Contact with Centerpoint has been made to establish ongoing
communications with their staff. And overflow parking
requirements have also been established with neighboring
parking lots at 4151 and 4211 Southwest Freeway to address
any potential parking requirements for our data center
customers.

Remote Systems: JaguarPC is monitoring and managing the
center 24x7 and will continue to do so throughout the storm.
All DR/BC plans have been reviewed across our monitoring and
management platform. Both remote and onsite customer systems
will be actively monitored, on "high alert" and available.

Internet Network: The JaguarPC network is secure. Three of
the four JaguarPC redundant backbone providers are accessing
the data center underground.

Backup Customer Communications: JaguarPC is deploying an
emergency email communication platform and should not have
issues with our ability to communicate via email.

Supplies: Customers who send employees to the data center
are responsible for their own provisions.

JaguarPC and its data center are committed to ensuring the
availability, security and integrity of critical data and
applications 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This commitment
doesn't waiver in the event of hurricane or other natural
disaster.

============================

Regards,
sales@jaguarpc.com - Customer Service
Jaguar Techonologies, LLc - JaguarPC.com

I will pull down some backups of the databases locally as the storm gets closer....just in case. Kudos to JagPC for sending this.

[ALLSKIING]

I don't know if I posted this before but my wife and I lived and went through Andrew in 92 in South Fl. I went through a few Cat 1's before but this thing was a Cat 5 and it was the most scared I ever have been. Never seen or heard anything like that before and it lasted 5+ hrs.

[deadheadskier]

I was living a few miles north of Venice, Florida last summer. Me and some friends hunkered down and had a hurricane party when Charley came through. When it was over, I was like that's it? We didn't even lose power. Then I drove twenty miles south and saw Port Charlotte which appeared like a bomb went off in town. It was pretty amazing that the eye of the storm passed 20 miles away from where I was and it just seemed like a bad rain storm.

[ctenidae]

Rita hit Cat 4 this morning. Yikes.