April 14 1999. My accountant calls me and says that my IRS extension request is ready. What????? This is the first year in the last 5 I have had all my ducks in a row on time!!!! What happened?

Seems the entire computer system in his firm (He owns the firm) crashed. But not to worry, because he has a company that just arranged all his back-up operations last night.
Last night???? Isn't this when the system crapped? Uh, yeah but the information was already backed up.

Turns out the back-up's were still going to the main storage device (different partition). Since it failed physically, HE LOST EVERYTHING!!!

The court case recently ended between CPA and IT firm. The IT firm called it quits and the owner gave himself Excedrin headache number .357.

Back-up your back-ups!!!

Yes, believe it or not this is a true story. I am also related to the CPA, otherwise I would have called bull.