Kee Hinckley's Post

For those who haven't followed, Los Angeles has five active fires in the city, and has winds gusting to 100mph. Lots of houses and businesses gone. I know folks who have evacuated. (G+/Twitter folks may remember Bruce Shark).

My daughter's place is just outside the "prepare to evacuate" zone in Eagle Rock. But she's on a plane from Ireland to Boston, and her partner is on a plane from LA to Boston. Nicely, another passenger heard her asking a flight attendant how to get wifi so she could check on her house, and gave her a voucher for free wifi. And she has a friends at her house now picking up a few irreplaceable items like art, books, just in case things change.

We've been through this once before when she was in junior high and we had a house fire. You learn what you really care about. And to do offsite backups regularly. (I got really lucky that time, I did backups just before we left for the weekend. They were onsite, but at the other end of the house, which got the least damage.)

Now I need to stop procrastinating and go buy BackBlaze for my Synology.