[Cialug] IHDC: EdgeBCC

[Aaron Korver]

I take issue with their "flood zone" map.  At least this year we in Iowa
were not "safe"  :-)

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Jeff Chapin <chapinjeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Team Technologies, which has a datacenter up here in CF likes to advertise
> that they are outside of most 'threat' zones:
> Rolling blackouts
> Flood zones (they recently added that one)
> Hurricanes
> Seismic
> Terrorism
> They even have a map describing where these threats are located:
> http://www.team-companies.com/#/Companies/InteractiveMap
>
> They do raise a bit of a point, if you are planning on staying up through a
> disaster, you could be doing worse.
>
> Jeff
>
>
> Aaron Porter wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Stephen Hawkins <ng0g at mchsi.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The Hayward Fault (the one that runs down the east side of San Francisco
>>> Bay
>>> is waaaay over due.  The population density is very high and many of the
>>> buildings (especially in the northern half) are old. The damage from a 7
>>> or
>>> larger will be catastrophic.  The 7.2 in 1989 was closer to the coast and
>>> about 40 miles south or there.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> If only that were the sole concern... there are lots of faults in a
>> very dense (population & technology) area. I had the "pleasure" of
>> riding out a 5.6 on the Calaveras fault inside a datacenter (6,4mi
>> from the epicenter). A big one would really be a mess. Even though
>> there was no property damage, the cellular network melted under the
>> surge of calls and remained unusable for a good two hours afterwards.
>>
>> http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/eqinthenews/2007/nc40204628/
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