My company has been very severely affected by Katrina, as many have. It will be months before our New Orleans offices and facilities are operable. Most of our NOLA operations have been moved to Lafayette, LA or Houston, TX or Dallas TX. Some have moved in with us at our South Arkansas headquarters.
It has been utter chaos, from an Information Technology perspective, getting all these folks back in operation. Most of the hundreds of displaced employees had to leave their PCs behind in now uninhabited facilities. We have had to provide replacements and bring replacement servers up to accomodate their domains.
Now we have Rita! Our Houston offices are evacuated and headed north. We may have to do it all over again for those folks. The NOLA people who headed to the Houston area are now having to evacuate again!
What is even more surreal... I watched the whole Katrina thing unfold and there were hurricane force winds as far up as Jackson, MS... pretty far inland. The latest storm tracks for Rita could have it doing the same thing toward us! Someone said we could have 70 mph winds and rain this weekend. So... I watch even more intently.
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John and Cindy
Kings Cross, London UK 2007
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