{"id":683,"date":"2011-08-31T12:08:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T17:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bly.com\/blog\/?p=683"},"modified":"2011-08-31T12:08:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T17:08:09","slug":"what-hurricane-irene-taught-me-about-pc-back-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/general\/what-hurricane-irene-taught-me-about-pc-back-up\/","title":{"rendered":"What Hurricane Irene Taught Me About PC Back-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, we lost Internet, fax, PC, and power for 2 days, not to mention we had 18 inches of water in the basement and no hot water.<\/p>\n<p>Having? your data backed up doesn&#8217;t do much good if you can&#8217;t turn on your PC. And my UPS (uninterruptible power supply) kept the PC going for only 20 minutes or so.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why I recommend you get another back-up device for your PC: a portable generator.<\/p>\n<p>Every homeowner reading this should own a generator. The time to buy it is now, before the next power outage. Once disaster strikes, you won&#8217;t be able to get one.<\/p>\n<p>Note: You also need a 5-gallon gas can to transport gasoline and several long extension cords. These too will become sold-out and impossible to get when the next crisis comes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, we lost Internet, fax, PC, and power for 2 days, not to mention we had 18 inches of water in the basement and no hot water. Having? your data backed up doesn&#8217;t do much good if you can&#8217;t turn on your PC. And my UPS (uninterruptible power supply) kept [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}