Sympathy yes, understanding no.
Whilst I sympathise with the vast majority of people trying to run businesses or get to work in these horrendous conditions I would suggest that a if you want to host other's business services it's probably best not to do it on a flood plain; or on the side of a volcano.
I would also suggest that like all services you get what you pay for; if you want resilience, fail over servers and other replicated DR facilities, they come at a price and its a shade more expensive than a couple of $100 dollar laptops.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
