Episode 22 - Tech, Disaster Prep, and You (Hurricane Ian Special)

The thing about disasters, “natural” ones at least, is that more often than not you really don’t see them coming… an alarm may give you the edge of a few minutes lead, or surrounding conditions may create the gut feeling of “something’s not right”… but in the case of a hurricane, usually they’re a little too big to miss…

The setup for this week’s episode is exactly one of those situations… Hurricane Ian is swirling around quite literally as I speak, and when it turned our way several days ago we decided it was an opportunity to take a long, hard look at how technology has developed around exactly these types of impending disasters…

Solar “generators”, cloud-based backups, and this thing called “Business Continuity” as a whole are all on tap, but the underlying message we hope comes through it all is, no matter what’s going on be safe, be prepared, and at the end of the day just try to be a good human… 

And on that early bombshell, I’m going to go tighten my storm shutters and charge this laptop…