[ale] OT: Murphy wins again

[Randal Jarrett]

Grady Hospital used to have their data center in the basement of the
hospital.  It had it's own set of large sump pumps, big 25hp units and
they were used quite often.

To top that off the floor above was the x-ray lab that seemed to have
leaks quite often. 

Randy

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 12:37, Kevin O'Neill Stoll wrote:
> Earlier this week, the Governor's Budget Office,
> www.opb.state.ga.us, had a server outage for the better
> part of a day.
> 
> Apparently, the plan was that if they put the server room
> on the 8th floor they were safe from most any natural
> disater that might happen, especially flooding. And since
> the server room used to be regular office space, they went
> to the extra trouble of disabling the water based fire
> suppression system and had installed a shiney new Halon
> system.
> 
> But, as Murphy would have it, earlier this week their
> server room ended up with approximately 10,000 to 12,000
> gallons of hot water in it, needless to say bringing the
> system to a crawl.
> 
> So, after all had settled and the last mop and bilge pump
> left the server room. We come to find out, the only hot
> water heater on the roof for the entire building was
> conviently located directly above the server room.
> 
> Murphy wins again.
> 
> 
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Randal Jarrett
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