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Blowing In The Wind (Server Pipeline) Server Pipeline columnist Jeffrey

Blowing In The Wind (Server Pipeline)
Server Pipeline columnist Jeffrey Shapiro saw first-hand what a head-on storm can do to server installations and networks when Hurricane Wilma devastated south Florida; he tells you exactly how to prepare for the next natural disaster.

FPL seeks to bond hurricane costs (Orlando Sentinel)
Florida Power & Light wants to sell bonds to recover much of the cost of responding to the hurricanes of the last two years and to rebuild a reserve for future hurricanes. If approved by regulators, such a move would spread out the cost to customers over a decade or so, rather than hitting them with a big surcharge all at once.

Damage to Lake O, estuaries will take months to fix (The News-Press)
Hurricane Wilma has put the South Florida Water Management District months, if not years, behind schedule in its management of Lake Okeechobee and downstream estuaries.

Editor's Note: Now that hurricane season is over, prepare for next year (Miami Herald)
For many of us, the days just dragged by until Dec. 1 brought the end -- we hope -- of the 2005 hurricane season. So put up your holiday lights, even if your roof is still covered with blue tarps.