Tuesday, January 9, 2018

QAD Offline Due To Massive Mudflow Disaster In Montecito

Santa Barbara, California-based ERP software developer QAD has lost its website--and has potentially undergone either mudflow or water intrusion--due to the massive disaster unfolding in Montecito, California. QAD's headquarters are immediately in the area in Santa Barbara where at least 8 people are dead, where hundreds are being rescued, and neighborhoods wiped out due to a mudflow off fire-stripped hills above Montecito, due to the massive Thomas Fire. QAD had redirected its main website to its blog site, saying on that site that QAD is experiencing an "unplanned outage". A map of Montecito shows QAD's headquarters is directly adjacent to North Jameson Lane and Sheffield Drive, where multiple fatalities had been reported as of Tuesday in Montecito. Earlier in the day, a rescue helicopter from Ventura County rescued a man trapped in an Audi floating down the 101 nearby, and rescue and recovery operations were continuing. Nearby medical calls on Sheffield Drive were being dispatched by helicopter, as there was no ground access to that neighborhood.