This is my first diary but something here cought my eye and the word needs to get out.
Wired just ran an article about an hour ago about a Colocation company called Zipa. They were the only really functioning comminication hub left alive in NO.
Despite the loss of most public utilities, at least one hosting company in hurricane-battered New Orleans is still online, fighting against time and the odds to keep part of the internet humming.
Occupying the 10th floor of a downtown Big Easy office building, Zipa is a typical web hosting and co-location center, with one key difference: It's sitting smack dab in the middle of some of the worst devastation the United States has ever experienced.
According to the wired article the building was acting as communications hub for the officals. They were trying from the wired article i found my way to the livejournal page of the crisis manager for the company
here
Go read the next to most recent entry.
more below
The word is that in Jefferson Parish and Orleans, FEMA has "bugged out." They haven't brought supplies in.
THE REAL MILITARY IS NOW FLOWING IN. National Guard is being replaced before our eyes. Watch the feed.
Word is that the Marines are at 1515 Poydras where our OC4s are. I think we're coming back online in force shortly.
Wired called this possible the only functiuonal blog within the disater area, i am not sure. they were runnign a live video feed as well.
Unfortunitly the feed is down, the hosted sites are down, from the looks of the newest post after i started this, the majority of there hosted content has been taking offline. But as the topic of this diary sugguests, the Real Military is finally showing displacing fema and the national guard.
According to the blog most of the colo centers fiber connections had died and they did not know how long it would operate.
THere is alot of raw information available there, and i have neither the time nor ability to organize it. But the word from the only non mainstream info i have seen is that the federal troops are displacing fema.
if this is a dupe please dont flame me i searched on serveral terms.