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Act of God damaged data on Google cloud disks

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"is the data centre on top of a mountain? hard to believe otherwise"

In his autobiography "Just a simple seaman" - Andrew Parks describes a thunderstorm that hit Frome Grammar School in England in the 1950s. As it started raining two groups of boys were instructed to carry some gymnastics equipment from a field back to the gymnasium. As the second group approached the school there was lightning strike on the building gable - dislodging some masonry. Moments later the building was struck again. The third lightning strike was in the field - directly into the first group of boys on their third trip. One boy was killed.

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