A quick note on my hurricane plan and results

In the newsletter that I posted last week, I discussed my plans for protecting my computer and camera equipment from the approaching hurricane. Here's my account of what happened during and after the storm.

The hurricane landed in the afternoon of September 11th at Morgan City, Louisiana, then headed east and passed directly over us.
We sustained winds of 85 mph with gusts to 100 mpg, lasting about 5 hours.
Fortunately, we had no significant damage, and everything is now normal.
As planned, I powered down and disconnected the desktop computer and prepared it for safekeeping in a pelican case, but I did not pack it.
The camera equipment was packed in the Pelican case and ready to go in case we needed to leave.
The power failed about an hour into the storm, and I disconnected everything but the Internet gateway. I disconnected the laptop from power and tracked the storm with it, relying on its battery. I have two UPS units. I planned on using the first until it ran out of power, and then I would switch to the other. The first lasted three hours, but the second would not power up; it failed when the power went off.
The power was out for two days, and we were loaned a generator to power most of the house. I did not power up the computer equipment while on the generator.

I've now reconnected the desktop and tested everything to make sure it made it through the storm. It did. My plan worked, and the only glitch was the failure of one of the UPS units, for which a replacement is now on order.