Like most places of business, there wasn't much work getting done in county offices in Lubbock last week.
Now employees are left catching up from more than just a holiday-shortened week.
A system-wide computer problem kept users from being able to even log on.
County Commissioner Patti Jones says network data storage equipment failed ahead of its scheduled replacement in January.
"There was just a short time for the jail that it was, when I say down, not any of the electronics, none of the security issues. It was just retrieving data. And so that had the first priority here. So they got that back up. The dispatch, medical examiners office...those operations that were 24/7. And then basically the rest of the county was completely offline. You couldn't get on your computer. You couldn't work any applications or anything."
Jones says the new equipment is installed and county computer access and operations are back to normal.
