Ever wonder what happens when a weather office has to stop processing the weather due to a main computer upgrade or a power outage or or or>?/??? Ya ever thought? Cant just not do the weather! Cant not just do warnings and watches and hazards.....
We just completed a pretty convoluted mod on the main computer system... so the forecasters couldn't not forecast.... They pretty much worked on what they could but there was no way to send that out or even get it out via NWRadio except manually. What is done is that one of our sister offices handled everything. In this case the weather office in St Teresa / El Paso handled their area as well as ours... They did great. The mod was two days with today being the second day. Nothing went as the process was supposed to. Stellar work by our ITO kept it from bogging down. ITOs are seemingly sitting around but they arnt. Removing an ITO from an office is like taking the wheels off your car and expecting it to keep going. Yeah.. the wheels sit there most times just invisibly holding things up.. but take them off and you are on blocks.... Yeah.. tortured but its the truth.
What made it better was the bagels and doughnuts! Oh and lots of coffee. Something like 10 hours yesterday and 5 today. Its chugging along and our forecasters took over from El Paso around 1pm. Seems the weather held off just until then because right after it started snowing in town. Whew!
Tomorrow its back to running around in circles, leaping to conclusions, questioning everyting that moves or not.... and hoping there is closure on other things.... I do have to bring in and replace the other side of my office, make calls, answer email.... If you ever want to see what we do.. come visit.
Now getting home and putting things away. Trying to do a few edits that are worthy of the wall. Separating hard drives and finding one that went missing. Gotta think about that for a moment and figure out what I did and why. I did find out that a surface pro computer will not allow the daisy-chaining of hubs without a dock. Add a dock and it runs everything easily.. why??? who knows but i t must be a controller thing. Now to sort more out. then move the backups to the office for safekeeping.
Here is what I played with this evening using the same process that I used yesterday except... well you can see....
FanTABulous!
OverCat.
KKLuminal.
Moo!
Fun things to do in your moments on mental breakdown.
Two things are or have happened today...but I deleted that rant..... Do not let the govt sell you anything... it will always cost you more than you think for less. Every damn time. I am tired of the stupid people. Idocoracy every damn day.
Signing off... tomorrow is "slap an Idiot day!"
