maintaining a data center in NOLA

[dwasson]

Here's (http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/) a Blog by a guy working in downtown NOLA. It's kinda inspiring to see someone this committed to their job.

[Dave Compson]

I have been reading this for a while now. Very interesting stuff.

[MERCMAN]

16 pages of photos http://www.nola-intel.org/pictures/

Looters and the like. Anyone want to run the plate in the first pic??

[hitchhiker]

Here's (http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/)a Blog by a guy working in downtown NOLA. It's kinda inspiring to see someone this committed to their job.
Good Information.

To that I will add this: http://www.nola.com/

http://www.nola.com/images/toprail/logo.gif (http://www.nola.com/)

It is the New Orleans web site run by the local New Orleans newspaper.

A section carries running message threads by those who are there or elsewhere discussing local conditions and information.

I was able to look up information on various neighborhoods and locations I visited while working on the DOD DIHMERS project there a couple of years ago.

I worked at the DOD SPAWAR IT development center out by the Lake and lived at an apartment complex on the water in Slidell, LA. Of course SPAWAR is now flooded and Slidell was where the left side of the eyewall went through! Terrible damage and I believe that the apartment complex I lived in is virtually gone.

While in New Orleans, I enjoyed several months of meeting locals, seeing several Marti Gras parades, including one done by boat in Slidell. King cake in the mornings in the breakroom, and great reasonable priced seafood. Great music in the clubs downtown in the evenings.

Like any large old city. New Orleans has a poor urban core full of crime, poverty, and other social problems. A disaster on a large scale in any city of that age and size would result in social chaos like we are seeing in New Orleans. That doesn't excuse it, it just put's it in perspective.

Remember the tales from the New York power blackout years ago.

When the order we impose as a civil society disolves due to some disaster chaos is already to take over. This can happen anywhere.

I hope New Orleans recovery is as quick and complete as humanly possible.

Best Regards,

David