FIRST Web site down due to Flooding
 

FIRST has taken down their web site due to flooding and the power company not able to ensure good/constant power.

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Wow. That's too bad. I've always wondered why they don't have a remote dedicated server.

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:ahh:

I heard the Merrimack was cresting last night on the news and immediately wondered if it would affect FIRST in any way.

I guess I have my answer.

It's kind of funny too in a sense, as we were just discussing the flood of 02 in FIRST's headquarters the weekend if Nats, and the possible relevance to the game the following year.

My theory was that FIRST needed some storage totes to save stuff from the water that was coming in from the floor above them, and then someone was inspired to use those storage containers as game objects.

What will this flood mean for next year's game???
One can only speculate..

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yup. I got the day off of work because my office has standing water in it. DEKA is right next to the river, and when i got there this morning they wouldn't let us into the building, but apparently there is 4ft in the basement of the building, and standing water on the first floor (my floor). The ironic thing is that i work on the water project and we can't deal with a bit of water on the floor :rolleyes:

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The Merrimack is supposed to crest about 10 feet above flood stage today into tommorow, Manchester is worried, if it gets much worse 3/4 of the mill yard will be devastated. I myself am high and dry, but the mighty Merrimack River is showing no mercy. I can't speak for Massachussetts, but in NH we as of today have 700 roads in NH closed because of impassable washouts, EVERY River is above flood stage, and 32 communities have been displaced since thursday. The one saving grace so far in this storm, is that all of our major dams have withstood the force *so far*. A few have shown concern, but have stood at this point. The town of Goffstown has closed EVERY road to residents, and only Emergency vehicles can traverse the roads. In Henniker NH, EVERY road in the town has some sort of damage making it almost impossible to commute to. This rain isnt supposed to stop until NEXT THURSDAY. Anybody wanna build an Ark with me?

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AGAIN? I know FIRST doesn't have a lot of money, but still guys, think about maybe moving the servers to somewhere better, like, oh, Dean's house?

Well, that's bad news. I hope everything is alright.

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CNN.com is showing some really bad flooding. Bad.

I was thinking about posting and asking if everyone is ok......
Please keep us all posted -
Jane

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So far there has been no known fatalities. But the devastation is immensly growing.


This is a pic of what most roads in Henniker look like


Stairs leading to Arms Park in Manchester, this is the walk along the millyard, you can see how HIGH the water is


This is the Amoskeag Dam that feed the Merrimack just upstream from the Millyard, those trees shown are usually on an island above water


Another look at what most roads in NH look like in some way or another.

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Instead of negative replies/statements, let's all of us here on Chief Delphi wish the best of luck to everyone in the effected area including but not limited to: FIRST, DEKA, AutoDesk, and everyone who's home, health and love ones are at risk.

Maybe next years game will have something to do with water?

Imagine building a field, then flooding it with 2 feet of water!

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I'm willing to bet that if FIRST was considering a water game before, they'll be sick of it by the end of that storm.

I hope everyone and everything up there bounces back quickly.

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yikes :ahh:



Thats a recent picture of the area...wow i hope everybody out there stays safe and dry.

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and I thought I was getting sick of the rain here in MI

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Noah and building an Ark sound familiar?? :)

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10 more days of rain, according to weather.com

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shoot me.
hasn't it rained enough yet?!
guess I shouldn't be complaining...

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Wow, that pretty bad!

On a side note: when I first saw the title of this thread I immediatly thought bandwidth flooding. I then thought "hmm, who would want to attack the FIRST website?" I guess unfortunately the answer to that would be "Mother Nature."

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Apparently this wierd pressure system is hanging over our general region, trapped by something in the West and something further East.

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all w have in florida is raging fires and no rain

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Not to mention gator attacks :(

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I saw that too. :(

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Sandbags?

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Trust me, if we could I think everyone in New England would send you as much rain as you want right now.

And the outlook does not look good for Manchester. 8 of the 10 days in the ten day forcast indicate some type of rain...

http://www.weather.com/outlook/recre...6hr_topnav_ski

Edit:
Maybe giant hair dryers mounted on robots, with soaked documents all over the field? :rolleyes:

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I took my segway down to the millyard to check things out, as i was only breifly there earlier. check out the photos, I am thinking i am going to be out of work most of this week.

http://robotphotos.org/v/members/fir...+Needel/flood/

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Arizona hasn't seen rain in 150 days...And its getting HOT!

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This is really something. Michigan has been getting one heck of a lot of rain too, and the sun won't be peeking through for a good while yet.

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If you'd like, I could send you some rain water to drop on something. jk. :yikes:

I first saw this thread's title and thought we were doing a such a good job of spreading the word of FIRST that too many people flooded the FIRST website. I guess that was just wishful thinking. :( oh, well!

I live in New Jersey and we've been getting, and are scheduled for, a lot of rain.

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Am I lucky that I live over here! I wouldn't be able to play the watergun games at my birthday party this Friday if we got that much rain...

Hopefully some sun will show and dry the rain in an instant like it does over here in Colorado. :D Please let everyone be safe!

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Are you perpetuating the rumor of a 2007 water game? :ahh:

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Yeah...they tried sand and blocking methods in various parts of the state. It managed to help some areas, but the rain came so hard that no one could move fast enough. Down the street from the PSNH office where I work, the road was completely overtaken by floods. Dozens of people had to be rescued from a K-Mart parking lot. Route 3A was so bad in Hooksett NH that the whole town was considered "closed" and every route in was blocked off by National Guard Soldiers.

You can pretty much tell from the pictures, New Hampshire is quite a mess right now. I had the opportunity to travel up and down the Merrimack today and everywhere from Manchester to Concord and beyond is spotted with floods.

The fortunate thing is that officials and everyone else did a wonderful job of keeping everyone on their toes and though damage will be pretty extensive, injury and loss of life will be minimal to none. So dont worry...we're all tough cookies up here, we'll pull through!

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Uh-oh, this doesn't look good for all of us here in New Jersey. It just started raining this evening. I dearly hope it's not going to get as bad as it is up there! :ahh:

Heh, I also thought that the "flooding" meant bandwidth flooding when I first saw it, too. :p

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does anyone know where i can get an old copy or cache of the usfirst site? I kinda need it for the frcdocs pages and spec sheets

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I can feel for the folks in Manchester...This was Franklin after Hurricane Floyd came thru in 1999....
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgu...lr%3D%26sa%3DN

And this picture was taken after the water went down some...
btw..Franklin is at least 50 miles from the coast.

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what exactly were you looking for? I have a backdoor, hidden version of part of the FIRST website somewhere on my server.

-Mike

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See if you can find what you need from www.archive.org. You should be able to view a fairly recent cache of the site using their Wayback Machine.

Edit: Looks like Mike beat me, but I'll still leave this just incase it is helpful at all.

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Might just be me, but the FIRST site is up and running for me now.

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Yep, back up.

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So.. at least for this week, can we rename the words of NERD to mean New England Rainy Days?

Or.. How about an event known as the New England Rain Defeat when it finally stops!

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My family has called me (I'm from up there) and told me the town roads are in wreck (Derry, 15 mins south of Manchester)... but most homes as far as they can tell are ok. They haven't been to Manchester.. can't get there with a sure way to get home... so she couldn't tell me how bad off they are up there.

I send best wishes to everyone up in the Tri-State Area, including my family. I wish everyone well, and hope the water falls soon.

Matthew J Glennon

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Not only is the site back up, http://usfirst.org (no www) finally redirects you to the actual page instead of just balking at you!

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YAY

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Glad everything is okay.

I don't know for NH, but here in CT, we just broke out in sunshine among the clouds. Still cold, but it was bright. I hope the same applies for NH.

I like rain, but NOT that much rain.

Daisy

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Still watching the news here in Austin. Sorry it is so bad up there. What you could use right now is an Al Skierkiewicz, 'Good Luck All'. That always makes it a little better.
Jane

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WOW amazing... just amazing... i cant belive that rain has amounted to that much water...

i really hope things turn out ok and the sunshine comes out soon... i was watching CNN earlier and heard that they will be reciving national aid starting as early as today... i also heard it was bad in Mass... wondering if it will affect BTB at all this weekend...

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That is sweet! It took me years to train myself to use the www, and now my conditioning can go extinct!

The rain has been aggravating in CT, but nowhere near as bad as it evidently is in NH. Best wishes to all of you!

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Best wishes to everyone caught up in the flooding, I hope all turns out okay... Let's hope the insurance companies pay out and that the damage is not as bad as it looks.


We'd expect it to be raining here in England but we're having a drought at the moment... The weather systems seem to have gone mad in the last year or two.

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Well, the CT Chapter of New England Rain Defeat is in action. It stopped mid day yesterday, and so far has been clear skies for almost 24 hours!!!

Let's hope the MA, NH, and other chapters can join us soon.

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Mass is doing pretty well today. I drove to work with my sunroof open for the first time in a week or so! :D

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Its finally drying up here...for today, more rain expected until next week

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we are fine. The river has dropped considerably today and the flooding has gone away in most areas. I got in to see my desk yesterday morning (and it was dry). I guess the water filled the basement but not much farther. There is still no power in my building, so we temporarily move to dean's house. Today we came back and shared another space in the building next door, hopefully there will be power back on by Friday. Thanks for all the kind words, but it appears that for us the water was much more of an inconvenience then anything else.

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So Greg, has DEKA's basement become the new place to test the highly anticipated Water Purifier device in "real world conditions"? :)

Glad to hear that Manchester and everywhere else is quickly drying out.

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no. The real world tests are going to happen very soon though.