The lessons of the Great Chicago flood of 1992

In what has come to be called The Great Chicago Flood Of 1992, a massive subterranean torrent disrupted, for three to 14 days, the operations of numerous financial and retailing organizations in Chicago’s so-called Looy, central business district. The total losses associated with these incidents have been estimated at more than $1.5 billion. Included among the organizations affected by the flooding were at least 30 data centres. Eighteen of these entities ultimately were forced by the flooding to move some part of their computing operations into so-called hot site recovery centres in various parts of the U.S.