Thursday, June 2, 2011

Starting Over After a Fire

Lincoln Fire and Rescue battles a fire at the Lincoln Public Schools Administration building, 5901 O St., late Monday night, May 30, 2011. This photo shows the west side and southwest corner of the building.
(TED KIRK / Lincoln Journal Star)
Our local school district administration building burned down this week. The fire spread at night, and the only employee in the building smelled smoke and called the fire department. So no one was hurt, thank God. But what a mess. I've been wondering since then, just as I did after the World Trade Center burned down, how do you get your business up and running again when all your stuff is gone? We all have off-site backups of our computer files...umm, right? Even if that is the case, the hours of work it would take to get all the new computers, configure them like they were before, and retrieve all those files, boggles my mind. Not to mention the logistics of replacing all the physical equipment and records that were assembled over decades. I just can't imagine it!

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