MagnetarJones's Journal: Prepping for Isabel

The company I work for has 3 offices in the DC/VA/MD area. We're making advanced preparations for the "possibility" of Isabel causing some problems since she will make landfall somewhere in that area tomorrow. We are running full backups of all servers tonight and sending them home with someone. We ran fulls at the beginning of the week and had them shipped to the home office. I'm checking all the APC software to make sure the servers will be shut-down gracefully in the event of power failure. There has been a discussion of just shutting them down early and waiting out the storm. I'd rather NOT shut anything down unless absolutely necessary.

The projected path after landfall is somewhere into the western to central New York area which could cause problems here in Syracuse. In 1972, Hurricane Agnes (at Category 1 when it made landfall in the Florida Panhandle) eventually tracked into southern New York / Pennsylvania and caused major flooding. Isabel could turn out to be worse than Agnes(just my thoughts).