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At 10:38 AM -0700 8/28/01, Rachel Warren wrote: > > > A bomb threat is definately something to worry about, though. >> >> Once upon a time, while talking with a customer about a particular LA >> datacenter's fault tolerant features (you know, generators, UPS, HVAC, >> diverse fiber entrances, etc...), they very calmly asked me what >> procedures we had in place in the event that a major earthquake struck >> the southland and dropped LA into the ocean or otherwise put the city >> underwater. I told them very bluntly that if an earthquake of that >> magnitude were to hit LA, I would *not* be overly concerned with their >> servers/circuit/etc., assuming I was still breathing. They were quite >> taken aback. ;) > >I guess I should have been more clear. I'm not talking about nuclear bombs. >I was talking about regular explosives (for lack of better wording) - pipe >bombs and the latter. The type of quake you are talking about is up in the >nuclear-bomb stratosphere, and that's not something that would keep me up >at night worrying. > >Plus, I live on the east coast. We don't have to worry about these >things called earthquakes for the most part. ;-) Think again (it's a common misconception ...): http://tlc.discovery.com/tlcpages/greatquakes/greatquakes_vulnerable.html Peter > >Rachel > >-- >Women and elephants never forget. - Dorothy Parker
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