Wonder how much the weather in Kansas can deal with this. I still might be hesitant to depend on streaming content or entirely cloud storage if I can't guarentee access in a tornado. Even without weather concerns, if I somehow mess up my configuration and don't have a reliable network connection, I don't want to be entirely cut off.
Still good, but I won't be abandoning local storage any time soon.
My reference is living in mid Missouri - we've had a bit of fun recently with tornadoes and other weather related outages are common. Granted, I live in a small town, so we probably have worse infrastructure than KC.
I know your question is a joke but for me... it pretty much is. I know bugger all about KC, except that in the back of my head there's a connection to Dorothy.
Actually I do (or at least thought I did) know two other things, one being that it is split across two states, and the other being that the KC Royals come from there.
Having now Googled... wow, so they're technically two cities with the same name literally right next to each other, not one big city?
And turns out the Royals are from KC, MO, but I presume they have a lot of support from KC, KS as well?
> so they're technically two cities with the same name literally right next to each other, not one big city?
It's one metropolitan area, but governmentally, yes, it is 2 separate cities (+ a lot of suburban cities). Politically, it's a dysfunctional family. It's really hard to get anything done, but occasionally that works to the benefit because you have competing governments. Most of the time its a detriment though.
The sports teams get support from both sides of the state line.
As always, it's smart to have redundant backups. However, your stuff is way, way safer, in terms of destructability, on Google's infrastructure than your own, especially in the case of tornadoes when your storage media is likely to be flung a half-mile away if you get hit.
Tornadoes are actually one of the more mild natural disasters. They are certainly not any more likely to knock out your ISP, whose cables are underground, than any other natural calamity. California's earthquakes pose a much greater threat to infrastructure than Kansas's tornadoes.
And like chucknelson, I lived in KC for years and can't recall a weather-related service disruption for my ISP.
Still good, but I won't be abandoning local storage any time soon.