Hurricane Frances is bearing down on Charleston, our third hurricane or tropical storm in a month, and the first one big enough to motivate the locals. While the conventional wisdom of old-time Charlestonians seems to center on getting drunk, then lashing themselves to some sturdy part of their houses, this storm has even old-timers scared and planning to evacuate. Me, too. If things continue to deteriorate, we’ll load the kids and dogs into our minivan and sneak out of town. There won’t be much space for computers in our escape vehicle, so I’ve been planning what to take along. It’s an exercise worth doing even if you never face a hurricane. What if your house was burning down? What would you take with you given only a few minutes to prepare?Talking to friends and neighbors, it’s clear that nobody here is thinking much about this problem, but I make my living from this stuff, and the thought of being offline or separated from my data is impossible to consider, so I have a plan, and you should, too. The upside is that having a plan actually makes my life less stressful even when there are no pending disasters.
A couple months ago, I posted about starting a software backup business. People evacuating before a hurricane could really use a service like that!
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