i appreciate a shared interest in infrastructure, resiliency, readiness and response, is not broadly held, but the "ralo status" of a single person (tom) is, imho, is of less _public_interest_ than the status of infrastructure operators in the sandy landfall zone -- at least this week. at present diesel is being hand carried in jerry cans up 17 floors at 111 8th ave to maintain operations on one floor, a major data center in manhattan, and a report (one of many on the outages list, and others) is in the link below. http://www.zayo.com/emergency-response interest and milage may vary, naturally. -e