After the Storm
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
I had meant to post this last week, but for those of you I didn't get this to, here are some startling photos of the flooding in New Orleans.
The US Deptartment of Agriculture's Southern region is headquartered out of its New Orleans research center. The timestamped photos on the linked page were taken by a contractor who rode out the storm in the relative safety offered by the building. Although we have all seen photos and video footage from New Orleans, these photos strike me as a little more intimate. The press coverage has shown very little footage of how calm the city was after the storm had passed on the 29th. The way in which the flood engulfed the city, literally overnight, is captured in these sequence of photos.
The good news is that according to the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) website, all New Orleans and Poplarville employees have been accounted for. As of last week, there were still a couple of technicians that the ARS had not been able to contact.
On a less important note, computer systems have been recovered, and it seems as though vital services are now up and running. The email I sent my father several days ago finally got through this morning. I wonder, though, if anybody ever really thinks about how important it is to store at least a copy of the backups at a different facility from where the main servers are operating.
The US Deptartment of Agriculture's Southern region is headquartered out of its New Orleans research center. The timestamped photos on the linked page were taken by a contractor who rode out the storm in the relative safety offered by the building. Although we have all seen photos and video footage from New Orleans, these photos strike me as a little more intimate. The press coverage has shown very little footage of how calm the city was after the storm had passed on the 29th. The way in which the flood engulfed the city, literally overnight, is captured in these sequence of photos.
The good news is that according to the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) website, all New Orleans and Poplarville employees have been accounted for. As of last week, there were still a couple of technicians that the ARS had not been able to contact.
On a less important note, computer systems have been recovered, and it seems as though vital services are now up and running. The email I sent my father several days ago finally got through this morning. I wonder, though, if anybody ever really thinks about how important it is to store at least a copy of the backups at a different facility from where the main servers are operating.
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