http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/01/new_orleans_hosting_survivors/
Yes, it’s another thing from The Register, but still… Blimey. What silly people!
In essence, despite the hurricane, lack of mains electricity, complete absence of law and order, and now potentially violent looters, the company has maintained web-hosting servers throughout the whole thing. I’ve got a lot of respect for their tenacity, but it does seem that they have strayed into the realm of stupidity… Still, it’s a stupidity born of a noble idea and it’s from such seeds that civilisation grew.