Hurricane reminder why I love the cloud
As I watch the relentless progress of Hurricane Ian towards Florida, where I have several relatives and friends sheltering, I am once again reminded of how great it is to keep most of my digital stuff in the cloud and not locally. A few years ago I read about someone who escaped Houston's floods during Hurricane Harvey with not much more than the clothes he was wearing, but was able to keep working because he just went into a store, bought a new Chromebook, and logged back in to find all of his email, files, photos, etc. Just in day-to-day life I find cloud stuff saves me constantly, like when on vacation and I get an urgent message from work that something has to be done ASAP. I can't imagine going back to desktop email with local storage.
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