Well, what a day yesterday became!
Yesterday’s work was at Bexley Grammar School. A case of re-programming their speaker system, tracing out faults on non-working speakers and getting them all back online, and a bit of training for the new IT guys.
On the way home I wanted to drop in to Bioteknics to pick up some memory for my server which is running my VMs. Only having 32Gb was just not enough so I purchased 128Gb to give it a bit more to play with. Unfortunately, on my way back the M2 was closed so I ended up stuck in traffic. I spoke to the people at Bioteknics and we managed to work out a way for me to collect the memory as there was no way I’d make it there before they closed. They were great, and so I managed to collect it with no fuss at all.
When I got home I shut down the server and changed the memory. Restarted the server and checked everything was running smoothly and configured each of my VMs to have a bit more memory to work with. Everything was good.
And along came the thunder and lightning! The lighting was amazing and just lit up the sky continually for a good couple of hours. Unfortunately, with it came the rain. I’ve never seen anything like it, has to be the most torrential downpour I’ve ever seen. Went to the kitchen to make a cup of tea to find water pouring in through the back door and looking out into our back yard revealed our new swimming pool!!!
After dealing with that we started getting minor power dropouts followed by a complete blackout. That’s when I discovered my UPS has packed up… batteries seem fine but the UPS would not change over, just a continual clicking as it tried and so all the computer equipment just powered down. New 2200VA UPS now on order to replace it.
It’s now Saturday morning and everything seems to have settled down but it appears that Dover (and probably the rest of Kent) suffered from massive flooding. I have seen videos of rivers of water flowing down almost all areas of Dover and its surrounding areas. I’ve never seen anything like it before around here. I feel very sorry for all those people out there whose houses have been flooded and everything they own has gone… I just hope everyone is OK.
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