Posted on 09/04/2017 4:29:36 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency in the state as rapidly growing Hurricane Irma, now a Category 4 storm, is expected to make landfall later this week.
The state of emergency has been issued for all of Florida’s 67 counties. Scott said that the state would “prepare for the worst and hope for the best” as Irma is expected to hit the state around Friday.
The governor tweeted Monday that he urges "all Floridians to remain vigilant and stay alert to local weather and news and visit FLGetAPlan.com today to get prepared.
"I have declared a state of emergency for every FL county to help state, federal and local governments work together as we prepare for #Irma."- Gov. Rick Scott 5:57 PM - Sep 4, 2017
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency in the state as rapidly growing Hurricane Irma, now a Category 4 storm, is expected to make landfall later this week.
The state of emergency has been issued for all of Florida’s 67 counties. Scott said that the state would “prepare for the worst and hope for the best” as Irma is expected to hit the state around Friday.
The governor tweeted Monday that he urges "all Floridians to remain vigilant and stay alert to local weather and news and visit FLGetAPlan.com today to get prepared."
“Hurricane Irma poses a severe threat to the entire State of Florida and requires that timely precautions are taken to protect the communities, critical infrastructure, and general welfare of this State,” the executive order stated.
Scott suggested on Twitter that state residents should use their Labor Day to prepare for Irma's arrival.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott has declared a state of emergency in the state as rapidly growing Hurricane Irma, now a Category 4
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Smart fella. So why can’t he run for Senate? Is there a bigger name out there? Bush-gag me.
I’m praying she heads north and out to sea
Sadly, Scott now supports DACA
If you are in IT and have any influence with your work, I HIGHLY recommend a good back up or flash copy of your company’s data. Preferably to some place outside of the gulf or Atlantic coastal states.
Not because Irma is going to be so bad, but because having an extra copy of your company’s data wont hurt, is likely to be very inexpensive, and just might save the company.
Many companies “died” in Katrina because both their primary and secondary data centers were destroyed (along with the data).
I once worked at a location where the primary computer storage was on one side of the building, and the disaster recovery files were on the other side of the building.
They thought that was sufficient. Nothing terrible eve happened, but it was just dumb.
Yeah, I have run into a lot of that in my years working in Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery.
We load our servers in a van and one of our IT guys hauls butt north as far as necessary. Has worked through several hurricanes.
[They thought that was sufficient. Nothing terrible eve happened, but it was just dumb.]
Hey, I managed at a place where
1) No real LAN - just peer-to-peer on routers
2) No backups. No SAN, no tapes, nothing. ZERO
3) No real-time antivirus. None. Zip. Nada.
4) No passive antivirus. I had to d/l free antivirus software to clean up what I could AFTER the fact.
5) No yearly backups, no monthly backups for the main legacy box. Just a few weeks.
6) Openly-hostile to anyone trying to correct those things (well, other than the free antivirus).
One cannot imagine such a place existed. Certainly not after about 1985 or so. But it did.
7) No indexing software, no aftermarket query tools, and datasets with individual fields for most of it (like 90%+).
8) Often two large blobs of hex data (EBCDIC).
9) Oh, and no splitting of test / production libraries neither. Not even test for individual programmers. Talk about impossible; it was.
Scotts an executive type. Sitting in a room with 99 pompous blowhards would only leave him a self-medicating alcoholic.
Oh and obviously no disaster recovery of ANY sort for the network nor the legacy system.
At least one of the banking organizations I worked for had it out of state in the mountains. Still, there were issues on the test....ouch.
Was this facility operated by Platte River or by one of the AWANS?
Ha, you need to read my 9 and 13. Don’t hurt yourself shaking you head, LOL.
Use cloud backup. You can encrypt locally before uploading so it is secure. Most businesses should have enough bandwidth to do daily backups or if not, then incremental backups. There is also the possibility of putting all data in the cloud so nothing gets lost with a local mishap.
Seems a bit early. Cuba could nullify the hurricane although the current track shows it narrowly missing Cuba.
I know a major infrastructure provider had a person standing by in a van with tapes of the business. Should the near by river start to go over the levy, the plan was to make one last backup and then shut everything down while the van made for the local airport and a waiting cargo plane.
Never had to go, but it was close.
You know, I could not possibly have imagined it was that bad. Been in I/T in various forms since the VERY early 1980’s. Been involved in all kinds of levels across multiple companies, industries, government, regulatory, etc. I knew it was a legacy system and the long term guy was in dire, dire health.
Still, I thought, OK back to work, lousy money but hey, I prefer to do something productive. EVERY thing I did they cut off, refuse to fund (even as little as $100 - actually one thing less than that), hostile to me stopping them from destroying the facility and when I said, OK, I’ll give up and try to transition they were still jerks.
The previous I/T Manager walked out. They were without one for a year. I walked out too. Afterwards I called her. She had pretty much the same complaints as I - spot on.
My Vice-President seemed like a decent and knowledgeable fellow. But he was stuck with this rogue location that never grew past 1974. Astonishing to see such a rookie place. I could see that anything I tried would be neutralized immediately.
Oh, and NO ADMIN RIGHTS to secure the desktops. Yes, I know it’s a pain but there are very good reasons.
NO policies on any of the desktops. Not one.
And here I was hoping to do some good. Well, no good deed goes unpunished (sometimes).
[You know, I could not possibly have imagined it was that bad.]
Meaning it was beyond my thought pattern to ask if the basics which were STANDARD in every single consulting client / business I ever touched, for decades, were missing. It was outside the realm of possibility. Or so I thought.
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