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Common causes of data loss around Chesapeake

Chesapeake is low and laced with rivers, canals, and wetlands, including the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River and the Intracoastal Waterway. Hurricanes, tropical storms, and nor'easters can push tidal water into low neighborhoods and leave heavy rain with nowhere to drain, flooding garages and ground floors. Keep computers, NAS units, and backup drives off the floor, move portable drives to a higher shelf or take them with you before a storm, and never power on a device that has been in floodwater. Keep one backup outside the house or in the cloud.

Outside the denser northern neighborhoods, many Chesapeake homes are served by long overhead power lines through wooded and rural areas, so summer thunderstorms and tropical systems can bring down trees and cause extended outages and surges. Long, humid summers also add moisture to garages and outbuildings where people often keep old computers and drives. Use a UPS on desktops and network storage, avoid running electronics on a generator without surge protection, and store drives in an air-conditioned room with desiccant packs rather than in a shed or garage.

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