The picture doesn't capture the way the day went. You can see the white umbrella in the far room if you look really closely....
Some contractors are working upstairs in our building to knock a wall down and double the size of our upstairs server room. In the process, a sprinkler line got broken...and chaos ensued.
Water started pouring through the ceiling downstairs. The IT manager ran upstairs in a frenzy when he'd heard the upstairs server room (mainly phone servers) sprinkler was broken. In the meantime, one of his employees heard water and opened the door to the downstairs server room, only to see water pouring down on top of all of the equipment that keeps our building functional. Plastic, umbrellas, and shop vacs came from all directions.
About that time, we hear that there are several inches of standing water in the locker room and it's still leaking into there as well. They emptied the sprinkler lines out at that time, but because of the pressure there was still a LOT that leaked. I walk through the ladies' room with a wet-dry vac to try to help with the locker room once the server room is under control, and there's water coming out of the light fixtures...not so good!
I then spent the afternoon in my socks squeegee-ing water toward the floor scrubber that someone else was running. The servers were basically all ruined. Our operations were down for the better part of 3 days.
What. a. disaster.
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