This via The Seattle Post Intelligencer–a live blog from New Orleans.  It seems this guy is holed up inside his office tower keeping his data center up and running with a generator. The blog posts and comments are a wild commentary on the scene you won’t hear anywhere else. Looting by citizens, AND police. . . . Recently he just had to go down to the ground floor to re-secure the entrances to keep people out–seems like there’s a Highlander episode, or Bruce Willis film like this. . . .

Not only is he blogging about everything–he’s got a live camera feed going as often as he can manage to keep it up. Right now the main live feed is down, but there is an alternate of somewhere else. It must be on some sort of underground mainline data trunk cable or something because he’s got bandwidth.



Anyway, I strongly urge you to check this out as the information and scenes from this event have the potential to teach us a lot about what could happen just about anywhere else under any other circumstance. My thoughts are really with everybody affected by this tradgedy. I once thought to call New Orleans my home. It’s a cool, beautiful city and I am sure it will climb out of the present craziness, but I don’t think it will ever be the same.

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