Re: iSeries friends in NOLA

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Great news I spoke to the IT manager this evening. It was the text 
message that did the trick. I had left him a couple text messages, one 
last evening and then this evening. In probably 50-75 calls these were 
the only two calls that got through. Because they are an insurance 
company the commissioner of insurance allowed them to go in with moving 
vans and pull their equipment which wile unpowered was also dry.. They 
had to go down the stairs with the stuff due to lack of power so some 
stuff got bounced a bit.. They are heading to a cold site now and it 
looks like they will be back on-line sometime tomorrow at that location. 
They are concerned about the bouncing as well as the heat and humidity 
the equipment was sitting in. Also the cables are "a rats nest in a box" 
at this point-A solvable problem indeed!

Even better news is that so far as they are currently aware there were 
no fatalities or injuries in their company or their families.

Thanks for all the ideas, I tried them all!

- Larry


Matt Graybiel wrote:

> Try text messaging their cell phone.  I have had a lot of success
> communicating with friends and family in NOLA this week via text message.
> Good luck.
>