I've been trying for several hours, too. Oh well, I guess I'll update my HP1 next year (i.e., Friday).
You got me on that one forgetting the new year is very close
I'm sure it will all be back to normal soon unless it was storm related.
Did they not have tornado's and then decent bad snow down in the Texas areas over the past couple days?
I'm in the Midwest so all my time is being spent on the severe flooding going on that is sending many of my workers back home as well as several that could not even leave their homes if they wanted to.
It's a mess plus some areas with rivers now cresting or getting ready to crest are being forced to cut off power to sections of towns. Probably not a bad idea figuring water and electric do not usually mix together very well!
I'm way up high and dry but still lost two ceilings due to flat rood drains that clogged. That let the roofs fill up with over a foot of water which got above flashing lines on server and exhaust vent pipes. Once that happened, the rain made it under the membrane roof and came in. In my case, I lost a bathroom ceiling and a living room ceiling but no damage to my electronics.
The cause was a drain clogged by a drowned rabbit or something that became swelled up and clogged the drain at the ground level three floors down.
Once I found that body and removed it, 1,000s of gallons of water came pouring out. I was surprised the flat roof did not give out with all that weight on it.
Had to be a few tons of weight.
Plus, we had a high rain rate of near 18 inches per hour which stirred up a lot of rooftop debris that normally does not get disturbed. That clogged the roof top drain screens when I got the bottom drain open so I still had to wade through a ton of water to get those screens cleared so it would finish draining.
I'm probably 100 to 150 foot above the nearest creek so who would have ever imagined I'd loose ceilings from excessive rain.
Never lost internet but an underground high voltage power explosion did cause power loss for several minutes until the auto re-closers finally held after the water caused short burned the wiring up. And that short was a few miles away from me!
It was still enough to overload the local grid and cause short outages across a pretty wide area though.
Then we had lightning so I had to disconnect my outdoor antenna's which greatly killed my scanner monitoring from the distant sites carrying the main info I wanted.
That was Saturday night so it was not a good night. My ceilings held until Sunday but the wet drywall brought them down even though I'd put holes in them Saturday and drained off about 100 gallons of water weight.
They were just too wet to handle the wet drywall weight.
Insurance covered it all though as it was not a flood but they will probably try and find a way to declare it a flood.
I just bought a new 1,000 dollar LED TV two days earlier. The ceiling above it missed it by 6 inches! I covered my radio benches just in case but that held.
