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Wonder how much the weather in Kansas can deal with this. I still might be hesitant to depend on streaming content or entirely cloud storage if I can't guarente

Wonder how much the weather in Kansas can deal with this. I still might be hesitant to depend on streaming content or entirely cloud storage if I can't guarentee access in a tornado. Even without weather concerns, if I somehow mess up my configuration and don't have a reliable network connection, I don't want to be entirely cut off. Still good, but I won't be abandoning local storage any time soon.

chucknelson 14y ago
I've lived in Kansas City and can tell you that worrying about a tornado knocking out my internet or any sort of service was never an issue. Is the Wizard of Oz your reference for weather in KC? ;)
- corin_ 14y ago
  I know your question is a joke but for me... it pretty much is. I know bugger all about KC, except that in the back of my head there's a connection to Dorothy.
  - tedunangst 14y ago
    Fun fact: Kansas City is not in Kansas. :)
    - corin_ 14y ago
      Actually I do (or at least thought I did) know two other things, one being that it is split across two states, and the other being that the KC Royals come from there. Having now Googled... wow, so they're technically two cities with the same name literally right next to each other, not one big city? And turns out the Royals are from KC, MO, but I presume they have a lot of support from KC, KS as well?
      - drgath 14y ago
        > so they're technically two cities with the same name literally right next to each other, not one big city? It's one metropolitan area, but governmentally, yes, it is 2 separate cities (+ a lot of suburban cities). Politically, it's a dysfunctional family. It's really hard to get anything done, but occasionally that works to the benefit because you have competing governments. Most of the time its a detriment though. The sports teams get support from both sides of the state line.
    - Agathos 14y ago
      Kansas City, KS is.
- rsheridan6 14y ago
  Ice storms are another story. When I lived in KC I had week-long outages twice due to ice storms knocking over large fractions of trees.
- mayneack 14y ago
  My reference is living in mid Missouri - we've had a bit of fun recently with tornadoes and other weather related outages are common. Granted, I live in a small town, so we probably have worse infrastructure than KC.
cookiecaper 14y ago
As always, it's smart to have redundant backups. However, your stuff is way, way safer, in terms of destructability, on Google's infrastructure than your own, especially in the case of tornadoes when your storage media is likely to be flung a half-mile away if you get hit. Tornadoes are actually one of the more mild natural disasters. They are certainly not any more likely to knock out your ISP, whose cables are underground, than any other natural calamity. California's earthquakes pose a much greater threat to infrastructure than Kansas's tornadoes. And like chucknelson, I lived in KC for years and can't recall a weather-related service disruption for my ISP.
- mayneack 14y ago
  It's quite common in rural mid-MO where I live. Storms (not necessarily tornadoes) and Ice.

chucknelson 14y ago

I've lived in Kansas City and can tell you that worrying about a tornado knocking out my internet or any sort of service was never an issue. Is the Wizard of Oz your reference for weather in KC? ;)

corin_ 14y ago
I know your question is a joke but for me... it pretty much is. I know bugger all about KC, except that in the back of my head there's a connection to Dorothy.
- tedunangst 14y ago
  Fun fact: Kansas City is not in Kansas. :)
  - corin_ 14y ago
    Actually I do (or at least thought I did) know two other things, one being that it is split across two states, and the other being that the KC Royals come from there. Having now Googled... wow, so they're technically two cities with the same name literally right next to each other, not one big city? And turns out the Royals are from KC, MO, but I presume they have a lot of support from KC, KS as well?
    - drgath 14y ago
      > so they're technically two cities with the same name literally right next to each other, not one big city? It's one metropolitan area, but governmentally, yes, it is 2 separate cities (+ a lot of suburban cities). Politically, it's a dysfunctional family. It's really hard to get anything done, but occasionally that works to the benefit because you have competing governments. Most of the time its a detriment though. The sports teams get support from both sides of the state line.
  - Agathos 14y ago
    Kansas City, KS is.
rsheridan6 14y ago
Ice storms are another story. When I lived in KC I had week-long outages twice due to ice storms knocking over large fractions of trees.
mayneack 14y ago
My reference is living in mid Missouri - we've had a bit of fun recently with tornadoes and other weather related outages are common. Granted, I live in a small town, so we probably have worse infrastructure than KC.

cookiecaper 14y ago

As always, it's smart to have redundant backups. However, your stuff is way, way safer, in terms of destructability, on Google's infrastructure than your own, especially in the case of tornadoes when your storage media is likely to be flung a half-mile away if you get hit. Tornadoes are actually one of the more mild natural disasters. They are certainly not any more likely to knock out your ISP, whose cables are underground, than any other natural calamity. California's earthquakes pose a much greater threat to infrastructure than Kansas's tornadoes. And like chucknelson, I lived in KC for years and can't recall a weather-related service disruption for my ISP.

mayneack 14y ago
It's quite common in rural mid-MO where I live. Storms (not necessarily tornadoes) and Ice.