{"id":84,"date":"2005-08-31T21:36:52","date_gmt":"2005-09-01T02:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2005-08-31T21:39:18","modified_gmt":"2005-09-01T02:39:18","slug":"are-you-prepared-for-a-flood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/are-you-prepared-for-a-flood\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Prepared for a Flood?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/wave.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>What happens to your website when disaster strikes?  Do you have a plan?  I remember the first time we discussed this here at the University of Texas at Austin.  As usual&#8230;our group saw the humorous side.  &#8220;Ya know, if Austin was a smoking hole in the ground, I just wouldn&#8217;t give a damn about the website.&#8221;  roflmao &#8220;Like anyone would know to go to emergency.utexas.edu.  How silly is that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then, my <strong>brilliant<\/strong> boss (seriously, he didn&#8217;t pay me to say that) reminds us that 50,000 students attend our university and if a disaster did happen there would be a lot of very concerned family and friends who would be so grateful for any bit of information they could find about the situation.<\/p>\n<p>As I sit and watch the horrible effects of hurricane Katrina and hear the heart wrenching stories of loss, it dawns on me, that <a href=\"http:\/\/emergency.tulane.edu\/\">emergency.tulane.edu<\/a> is a very good idea.  And even more interesting (as my co-worker Andy pointed out), it looks quite a bit like a blog.  <\/p>\n<p>Kudos to Tulane for their exemplary effort to keep information flowing during such a devastating situation.   And as you climb into your dry bed tonight, consider sharing a bit of your good fortune with those who have lost so much.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.org\/\">Donate to the Red Cross.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgdeco\"><img src=\"\/images\/wave.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>What happens to your website when disaster strikes?  Do you have a plan?  I remember the first time we discussed this here at the University of Texas at Austin.  As usual&#8230;our group saw the humorous side.  &#8220;Ya know, if Austin was a smoking hole in the ground, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glendathegood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}