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Common causes of data loss around Philadelphia

Much of Philadelphia's housing is century-old rowhouses, many with dated wiring, ungrounded outlets, and circuits stretched by window air conditioners and space heaters. That leads to tripped breakers, brownouts, and surges that hit computers and drives. Rowhouse basements also flood during heavy downpours and sewer backups, and they're often where desktops and backup drives end up. Plug electronics into grounded outlets with real surge protection, keep a UPS on desktops and NAS units, avoid sharing a circuit with a heater or AC unit, and keep anything important off the basement floor.

Summer heat waves and severe thunderstorms are a regular source of outages and surges. The remnants of Hurricane Ida in September 2021 showed how bad flooding can get: the Schuylkill River overflowed into Manayunk and flooded the Vine Street Expressway, while heavy rain soaked basements across the region. If a device has been in floodwater, don't power it on or dry it with heat; seal it in a plastic bag and get it evaluated. Keep at least one backup offsite or in the cloud so a single flooded basement can't take everything.

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