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Out here, in the Pacific Northwest, we've had some fierce storms. Where I am, we were hit by high winds - sustained 50mph for 24 hours, with gusts of 80+mph. Some higher gusts were noted unofficially - up to 120 I understand, though the official monitoring station got knocked out after the 81mph gust of wind. In addition - lots of rain and consequently severe flooding. However, for me...wind damage only. Bright side: our wooded hillside property is now view property

Sorry for the long lead in...anyway where were without power for 5 days. I did not get to open again until Friday this week, and we added Saturday, just to get folks seen. However, since my schedule template is set up to show me off on the weekend, I cannot add patients for Saturday. How can I change it, just day by day...not the entire template?

BTW...I'm very, very glad that I also keep a paper schedule...I was able to see who was scheduled - if it had been just AC...I would have been SOL.

Hi Barbara,

1. I don't use the scheduler, so I wouldn't know very well, but wouldn't it make sense to just use paper or Excel for Saturdays since you will only do it once or twice a year?

2.

Can you print out the schedule for situations like these rather than have to keep a paper schedule? Do you really keep a secondary paper schedule? Wow. That's a lot of work

Re the Schedule:


Yes, I could print out the schedule, but in this case, how did I know I'd be without power for several days? It's really not a lot of work to keep a paper schedule/calendar going with contact phone number.

Also...towns east of me flooded...even the Starbucks was submerged and one could only see the top foot or so of walmart. Any electronic equipment was toast (as well as houses, businesses etc. Even the major interstate was under 10 feet of water).

The only other thing I could have done is keep a laptop with a complete up to date copy of AC on it - as long as the batter lasted anyway.

Still it would be nice to be able to have the scheduler be somewhat flexible.

What you may want to think about doing is investing in an Uninterruptible Power Supply. I have smaller ones on each computer and a rather large one on the server. It's good to get them with AVR (automated voltage regulator). These help with brownouts and keep the voltage relatively normal. Flat screen monitors get fried a lot from that.

Even if you don't have them on each PC, you should consider having one on the PC which runs the databases. This would help prevent corruption (although not as well as protecting all), and would give you time to print out your schedules. The ones we use will run about two hours for the server and monitor and around 90 minutes for the clients. We run one other large one for the modem, router and switch.

While APC makes some good ones, I have had a lot more luck with CyberPower. As you would expect, they also give surge protection. Most run software which shut down computers automatically, if you aren't present.

Just a thought.