This actually happened to me a few years ago in Phoenix. We were moving into a new call center, had just moved the equipment into the server room (sans the racks as they were on order), and had a freak 100 year storm that collapsed the roof right over the datacenter.
New employees always wondered why we called it the fishbowl. The water went half way up the glass. From: David W. McSpadden [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT, Bad server room day That's not paper those are floor/ceiling tiles and they are floating. Watching it all the way through it looks like the water gets about a foot and a half up the cages. From: Jon Harris<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 2:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: OT, Bad server room day Look again there was only a little paper on the floor and there was no damage to the top of the equipment. It looked more like smoke rolling in and back out to me. Jon On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 2:18 PM, David W. McSpadden <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I think the ceiling collapsed. From: Jon Harris<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: OT, Bad server room day It looked like the fire suppressor went off in the server area so they must have fried something before all the power died. Jon On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Roger Wright <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Exactly! And does most of Europe/Asia use 220/240 VAC? Roger Wright ___ Sent from Tampa, FL, United States On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: There is no way I was going to be walking about in any water with all that electrical equipment. -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker<http://xeesm.com/AndrewBaker> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 1:12 PM, C.E. Gene Connor <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/09/16/1555252 Just had to share this. And hope it never happens to any of us? -- Gene C. In Memory of my little brother http://genec-lori.com/ PackRat GarageSale http://genec-lori.biz/ Genes-Computers Inc. Yulee ,Fl Established 1981, Microsoft OEM Registered member, system builder & Active registered Microsoft Partner Active Charter Partner of The Association of System Builders and Integrators If you think you're beaten, Then you are! If you give up the fight, Accept it !! ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
