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Common causes of data loss around South Bend

South Bend sits close enough to Lake Michigan to get lake-effect snow, and winter storms can bring heavy snowfall, ice, and outages when lines come down. Very cold weather also creates condensation when laptops and drives are brought in from a car or a walk across campus. Let cold devices warm up to room temperature before powering them on, keep spare drives indoors rather than in a car or garage, and touch grounded metal before handling a bare drive in dry, heated indoor air.

Many South Bend neighborhoods have older homes with aging wiring and basements, and spring rain or snowmelt can push water into basements where computers and boxes of old drives are often kept. Summer thunderstorms bring lightning and surges. Keep equipment off basement floors, use a dehumidifier in damp spaces, put desktops and NAS units on surge protection or a UPS, and keep a cloud copy of anything irreplaceable.

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