Well… in this 20th anniversary year, we’ve just made it through the highest Acqua Alta (high tide) in twenty years (1.56 cm). The fact that I am writing this blog entry is part of the good news… I got at least one DSL line working. We had about 6 inches of water in the VPC and for the first time we had water clear across the entire length of the office. I spent all day mopping, but everything is spic and span now (I guess it needed a cleaning). Once I got to the office (on foot due to the awesome timing of the concurrent boat strike), I spent the first 3 hours trying to salvage 20 years worth of projects, plus all of our equipment. Then, I was trapped with no phone or internet, plus cell phones don’t work in the VPC, so there was a communication breakdown for about 4 hrs. We had no phone nor internet until 6pm but both are back up again… The server is down until we can get it restarted. We will wait until tomorrow, since another high tide is forecasted for 11 am tomorrow (115 cm as of now, but they were wrong last night…). I hope this won’t disrupt our week too much, but we’ll take it one day at a time. Here's one of my videos:Acqua Alta in the VPC from Fabio Carrera on Vimeo.
I'll upload more videos tomorrow...
