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...a pretty big storm that rolled through the Upper Valley that night. If you ask around you'll find that most folks were awakened by heavy and frequent crashing of the thunder and lightning show. Power and telephone crews were out in full force, not sure where the call would come from, but sure that it would come.
Jeff, sitting in his office, heard some hits along a nearby ridge. He issued a couple commands to shutdown the database and flush the file system to disk. He even started a backup, not that it would get a chance to finish...