Half of Downtown Without Power!

[David]

If you remember waaayyy back a few years when the old Southside generation plant (now gone) had a fire that blacked/browned most of Jax for almost 24 hours... That was when I got my DR act together.  The small entity I work for would NOT be dead for the day any longer under that scenario...

I'm not at the infrastructure level otherwise I'd push for one myself.

Our UPS systems held up for a while. They gave us enough time to shutdown the servers and network gear systematically, but with an outage lasting that long I don't think there's any amount of battery backup that can power an entire data center for that length of time. 

You need to have an onsite back up generator, simple as that. I'm curious how the other companies fared during this outage.