Hurricane Sandy hits sometime tonight (Sunday 10/28) or tomorrow morning, bringing torrential rain and high winds that will almost certainly take out the College’s power/internet at some point between now and Tuesday afternoon. Risks to life and limb aside, the important consequence of this for you, dear user, is that SCCS will go down when that happens for an indeterminate length of time (perhaps as much as 48 hours, but hopefully less). Consider it a portent of the apocalypse.
Want further evidence of impending doom? Swarthmore College actually canceled classes because of the weather – for the first time in at least 34 years. So gather your families. Stockpile food and weapons. Stay safe. And don’t miss us too much – we’ll be back soon, providing you with lolcats til the fall of civilization.
The campus will be turning off power during the evening of Thursday, 12/29/11, around 6pm EST, so SCCS will be going down. Hopefully SCCS will then be going back up once power is restored. If the servers don’t manage to reboot properly, the downtime may last a bit longer since no SCCS staff are on campus, but we’ll do our best to be back up one way or another by the end of Friday.