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I've mentioned before, I work at Yahoo. They have a server farm in Lockport. If you go on anything Yahoo or AOL on the East Coast from Maine to Key West, it comes out of Lockport. Usually, the day before Christmas is super slow. Today? Not so much. I work for the Incident Management team. When there's an outage of any kind, they get a hold of our team either through Slack or email. Anything from a server issue to a major issue impacting a large number of users, or high dollar amounts of losses. Today was a major issue. The server buildings are called "chicken coops". Long buildings with a high top that allows airflow throughout the building. Lockport and Western New York were chosen because of the cool air during the winter months. The airflow allows just air into the vents and keeps rain out. Well, the Blizzard of 22 was too smart for that. The wind blew snow through the air vents, got into the building, turned into water, and was dripping directly onto a Universal Power Supply that supplied power to over 400 servers. The "UPS" then started to short out but was still running for the time being. If it completely went out before we had a chance to transfer data to other server farms or take the servers out of rotation in a systematic way where it would have no impact, Yahoo on the East coast would have been down, including Fantasy Football, Yahoo Finance, you name it. What had to happen is our entire team who was working today had to page and call out to the on-calls of over 45 teams who operated those over 400 servers. They either had to take the servers out of rotation or transfer the data on those servers to the other 2 server farms Yahoo has in Nebraska and Washington State. With this being the day before Christmas, not all the on-calls were immediately available. After about 7 hours, we got a hold of all the on-calls, they did their thing to transfer data or take the servers out of rotation. The only facilities guy who was able to make it in powered down the servers. After that was done, he powered down the universal power supply. That is offline until Tuesday. But we're operational. The only impact is a small number of Yahoo email users who had their accounts on those servers may not see old emails.

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The Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders are dressed like Santas. I now have an unspeakable urge to have "Santa Cheerleader" sit on my lap.

Was coming in to say he is now toast on that TD. Just a really bad play.

James Cook was named as having the top Rookie performance today on NFL Red Zone

It looked like Knox was trying to go down at the 1 yd line, but there were lazy Bears players around him and his momentum carried him into the endzone.

Happy Holidays @Italian Bills! I don't speak Italian, but I like Italian wine and food. Is that close?

What are you smoking? I mean, seriously...

The snow has drifted to where it's up to our waist at the front door and garage door.

As I told my daughter... Yes. This IS the type of weather I walked to school while barefoot uphill both ways.

Rams season is over with anyways

Interstate 90 is closed to all traffic from Rochester to the Pennsylvania State Line, and the 190 from the 90 to Lewiston is also closed to all traffic.

Didn't you die a few years ago?

This storm has more snow and blow than a 1991 Bills postgame team party.

Travel ban in all of Erie County starting at 9:30 am EST.

I can barely see the house across the street from us on Cheektowaga/West Seneca border, (Cheektowaga zip code, West Seneca schools). It's a full-on blizzard here now.

Editing titles on old threads isn't at the forefront of my TBD thinking, but I would be happy to.

Lil Dirty topped Josh when it comes to gift giving

Paywall - But a good portion of folks here have subscriptions to The Athletic. A good read. https://theathletic.com/4005716/2022/12/22/patrick-mahomes-josh-allen-nfl-sportsperson/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983

Josh can golf year-round.

I think Einstein is being a Diva by starting posts that he knows will put all the attention directly on him.