Data recovery in Louisiana

Louisiana's data loss is shaped by its ports, its energy industry, and its culture. New Orleans combines tourism, a busy port, music, film and television production, universities, and healthcare, so footage, recordings, and business records on portable drives and laptops fail here often. Baton Rouge, the state capital, is home to Louisiana State University and a long corridor of petrochemical plants along the Mississippi River, where engineers keep process data and drawings on workstations. Many of these workers keep the only copy of important files on a single laptop.

In Acadiana, Lafayette combines offshore oil and gas services, healthcare, a university, and a strong Cajun and Creole cultural economy, while Lake Charles in the southwest has grown around liquefied natural gas, petrochemicals, and casinos. Shreveport in the northwest adds healthcare, gaming, and Barksdale Air Force Base. Sugarcane, rice, crawfish, and timber operations fill the rural parishes. ClearQuote serves all of it by mail, with no office in the state. You confirm your case online, we email a free prepaid shipping label, and you drop the package at any carrier location. A single device is a flat $1,200, and you pay only if we recover your data.

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What puts data at risk in Louisiana

Hurricanes are a fact of life in South Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 flooded most of New Orleans, Hurricanes Laura and Delta struck Lake Charles within weeks of each other in 2020, and Hurricane Ida in August 2021 knocked out power to all of New Orleans and much of the region for days. Before a storm, back up to the cloud or to a drive you take with you, unplug desktops and NAS units, and move equipment off the floor and away from windows. Never power on a device that has been in floodwater.

Flooding does not require a hurricane. In August 2016, a slow-moving storm dropped extreme rainfall on the Baton Rouge and Lafayette areas and flooded thousands of homes. High humidity and salt air corrode connectors and circuit boards, and mold can grow inside electronics left in homes without air conditioning after a storm. Frequent summer thunderstorms bring lightning and surges, and North Louisiana sees occasional tornadoes and ice. Keep drives in conditioned rooms, use surge protection on power and network lines, and keep a backup outside the state.

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