[ale] OT: Murphy wins again

[Adrin]

Sorry I have to do this.

But why were they heating the hot water?


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org]On Behalf Of
> Randal Jarrett
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 3:24 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Murphy wins again
> 
> 
> 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.
> > 
> > 
> > =====
> > Kevin Stoll
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> > 
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