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Florida Gov. Rick Scott Declares State Of Emergency Ahead Of Category 4 Hurricane Irma
Fox News ^ | 09/04/17

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: emergency; hurricane; hurricaneirma; irma; rickscott
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To: taxcontrol

Everything should be backed up in the cloud at this point.


21 posted on 09/04/2017 5:51:19 PM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: taxcontrol

I’ve lead two HA projects in my career. LV was the choice destination for a secondary data center. We had incredible response time across country.


22 posted on 09/04/2017 6:17:16 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Time for a MOAB?


23 posted on 09/04/2017 6:56:31 PM PDT by Does so (McAuliffe's Charlottesville...and...The Walter Duranty Press"...)
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To: SamAdams76

Many financial institutions do not believe the cloud provides the level of security required to protect banking records. Further, there are those that need very low latency data replication in order to capture the transaction based flows. This often leads to high bandwidth between the Active and fail over locations. Because of that architecture, they don’t need a cloud provider.


24 posted on 09/04/2017 8:01:42 PM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
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To: SaveFerris

Did you have many employees from Russia working there???;)


25 posted on 09/04/2017 8:55:14 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Frank_2001

LOL

It was like being in an episode of “The Twilight Zone”.

We had a new PC for the bookkeeper. I’m waiting for Christmas vacations to be over so I can consult with a guy in the home office on how to setup a basic policy and of course, admin to protect them from the TWO ransomware viruses that wiped out 2 machines (2 different viruses).

Soooo.....we have her new PC - she never says ONE word to me, nor my superior. One day a manager from another department just walks in, takes them right in front of us, no hi no hello no hey and takes the machine.

So I ask my staff member, is there any reason WE are not doing that? She’s like, well I guess she wanted it. Well, let’s certainly not talk to the I/T Manager. Had I chased after it, it would have been another ridiculous drama where I lost.

No protocols, no standards, no backups, absolutely no idea about even a single best practice EVER used in the industry.

Yes, it was mostly a very small, dying, Kansas town with people who had never been in any real I/T shop anywhere; not once in their lives.

Here’s I’m thinking I could help — I might as well have stepped off a UFO and asked to eat the family cat in front of them. And I had to blow 1/2 my lousy pay on gas, out-of-town food and 1 or 1.5 star hotels. I had hoped to make things better. I might as well have shot a fire hose at the Sun.

So it was what we call a total silo, worst I’ve ever seen. Built on error for 40+ years with no documentation to speak of, no comments, not even descriptions on 90%+ of the programs, procedures. One gal we had consulting couldn’t figure out why I couldn’t absorb her 20-25 years of working in that mess (with the ill guy but healthy) in just a few weeks. Even SHE gave up trying to fix the problems he caused at the end. I’m trying to keep the operation going and not do too much damage because we had a business to run.

Boy did I have fun, LOL.


26 posted on 09/04/2017 10:47:44 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

s/b “Here I’m thinking”


27 posted on 09/04/2017 10:56:56 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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