This has been a crazy week! Tuesday night we had a huge storm, with hurrican force winds. I believe it was a part of Tropical Storm Beryl. At 7:30 PM on Tuesday night, some 500,000 people in our area lost electricity. Of course we did too. But now on Friday afternoon, I still do not have power at my house. In fact most of our township is without power. Its pretty crazy, and really annoying. I’ve had a bunch of stuff to get done before I go to school in three weeks, and now I have less time to do it. Hopefully we will get power soon.
But I thought about it more, and realized that PECO (our electric provider) has really shot their uptime statistics for this year. We usually lose power for approximatly a total of 24 hours a year. This is 99.7% uptime. In my work in the IT department with an ASP, this amount of uptime is unacceptable. We have to have at least 99.99%. Well with this 70+ hour downtime, PECO’s uptime for this year will be 98.5%. Ouch. Somebody would get fired in most IT shops for that kind of poor uptime. But there is only so much you can do when trees fall on your power lines. This would make a good case for lines buried in the ground. One good thing this kind of storm outage does is raise awareness for disaster recovery. At least at my company we have already made changes to our plan, and ordered more equipment that will help ensure our office will still function after any future storms may try to shut us down. (We almost lost one important old dev server after a power surge on Tues night. But after several hours on the phone with HP we got it back in order.)
So PECO, turn my lights back on. I want to build a linux server this weekend. (Before I go to the beach next week)
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