St. Louis Mayor Cara Spencer told MSNBC on Monday that FEMA had yet to assist after the city was ravaged by a tornado days prior.
The tornado first touched down in St. Louis on Friday. The storm — reportedly 20 miles in length at its strongest — killed at least five people in St. Louis County at the time of writing. Spencer reported during a press conference that 38 people had been injured, and that number was expected to increase as recovery efforts continued.
Friday’s tornado was one of many that affected the region over the weekend, with Kentucky also being hit by storms. At the time of writing, dozens of the dead had already been found.
Yeah, the most useful backup is the one you’ll actually use. And people will actually use the first-party services, because they just work. There’s no real effort required on the individual’s side, it just happens automatically.
There’s a large self-hosting community on Lemmy, because it sort of goes hand in hand with the whole “anyone can spin up an instance and host Lemmy themselves” thing. But the reality is that self hosting takes work, and a whole fucking lot of learning if you’re not already familiar with how to do it. And it’s easy to fuck it up in ways that can leave you vulnerable to attacks. Many users wouldn’t even know how to register a domain, let alone how to point their hosted services to it.
If you want to self-host your backups, that’s great. I host mine. But I’m not going to advocate for casual users to start doing it, especially when it’s sensitive data like photos. You store that shit on the cloud because that’s the easiest way to accomplish the 3-2-1 backup method; 3 backups, 2 different types of storage media, 1 off site.
The cloud storage can absolutely be your offsite backup. Especially when dealing with something as wide-reaching as a wildfire. If your house burns down due to a wildfire, do you really think your buddy’s house two streets away will be a safe location for your offsite backup? Fuck no, because your buddy’s house is on fire too.