Although email service was murdered by a power outage, Wall Street Journal journal newshounds soldiered on. Among other things, Hanrahan and Fry write, “there was the vague, swimmy dread of being disconnected — the near-certainty that someone important out there was sending us email and getting increasingly infuriated by the lack of a reply.”

Luckily, the Journal had offsite backup mail storage, like that provided by the better email border security appliances. When email service returned, the scribes note, “it felt like a slow exhalation, like the world settling back onto its normal foundations.”

Sadly, we often don’t appreciate what we have till we’ve lost it. An occasional refresher course can be beneficial.

See for yourself at The Wall Street Journal Online.