Automate the whole racking system so that you can purge oxygen out of the
whole room?

On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 12:42 PM Chuck McCown via AF <[email protected]> wrote:

> Wow, I am sure there are lots of irreplaceable documents.  So if you were
> to
> build one, I wonder how to prevent this same problem?
> I guess structural engineering needs to presume all the racks are full of
> water.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nate Burke
> Sent: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 10:36 AM
> To: Animal Farm
> Subject: [AFMUG] OT: Document Storage
>
> Here in the Chicago suburbs, a 250k sqft document storage warehouse just
> burned down.  It took them a week to put out the fire.  30' Racks
> stacked with banker boxes, when the building sprinklers hit it, the
> paper got waterlogged and got too heavy for the racks to support and
> came down, taking roof supports and building sprinkler system down with
> them.  Once the roof was opened up, the fire got lots of air, and just
> started raging.  With the roof gone, nothing was holding up the precast
> walls, etc.etc.  Basically there's no more building left.
>
> So what kind of paper documents are stored in warehouses like this? Bank
> Documents?  Law office contracts?  The Panama Papers?  I'm just curious
> what the market is for industrial scale paper storage like this.  I see
> a lot of storage places like this around the suburbs. Iron Mountain has
> a couple big facilities.  I'm guessing you are responsible for your own
> redundant copies at multiple storage warehouses?  Also seems like if
> there are just boxes of papers stacked on a shelf, there's really no
> security.
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