Earlier this week, we had two bad storms that passed by Twin Cities area and caused extensive damage, including three reported deaths.

The Twin Cities metro area — which was hit hard by severe storms on Wednesday night — was largely spared by Thursday night’s storms. Winds gusted to 53 mph at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport as storms moved through late Thursday.

Source: MPR News

One of the main casualties of the storm was a brief power outage, resulting in a brief shutdown of all our electrical appliances, including the computers.

Computer Hard Crash

In one of my Mac machines, I was running MAMP server for my local WordPress development projects. The next morning, when I re-started my computer and tested the MAMP server, its SQL server failed to start even after several attempts. I search similar problems and tried to find quick solutions (eg. this reddit thread). Nothing worked!

I even tried to re-install MAMP server and used the db files from my project sites, I was not able to recovered my local project data. After spending an entire day trying to recover my lost data, I failed and finally gave up and decided to fresh start with Local flywheel.

One good news is since I work on the same projects in another machine located in a separate room and luckily in that machine the MAMP server still works. I can access some lost data (not exactly the same, though).

Now, I am slowly re-restoring my project sites with freshly creating local data, which might take me for a while. But I have no other options, but start fresh one project at a time!

Lesions learned: Never leave your MAMP server on after calling the day off!