This was not what I had in mind for the week of August 29, 2005. I had just returned from the International Legal Technology Association meeting in Phoenix. My plan was to continue working on our IT department’s business continuity/disaster recovery plan. I didn’t expect to experience actively working through the plan and modifying on the fly as we actually experienced disaster recovery.

After the levees broke, 80 percent of the city was under water. Power was non-existent in the city and cell phone towers were down. Communications ceased to exist unless you were sober enough to think of text messaging.

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