Reminds you of the US Interstate Highway system and the way it instantly snarled as soon as Washington residents tried to exit en masse during the riots of the late 1960s, doesn’t it… that blizzard coming on top of the New York World Trade Center bombing was just the kind of disaster the disaster recovery industry has been dreading: according to the New York Times, a heavy accumulation of snow caused the roof of the computer centre in Clifton, New Jersey that supports 5,000 automatic teller machines US-wide, 6% of the total, to collapse, putting the machines out of action – and the centre couldn’t transfer its operations to the North Bergen, New Jersey site where it had disaster recovery facilities arranged – because the site was full up with work transferred by Trade Center tenants…
