It fell to me this fall to update ENR's business continuity plan, and, as I needed to leave our New York headquarters and head to coastal North Carolina in late October to deal with some family matters, I was intent on finishing before I left. It turns out to have been a very good thing because all hell broke loose just as I drove away.
Hurricane Sandy caught us with a devastating left hook that kicked ENR out of its midtown Manhattan office during press time, sent server teams scrambling to rescue our operations as the scattered members of the editorial, art and production departments frantically struggled to fall back on remote access communications from any hot spot and power source they could find.