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When water "cooling" goes wrong
- Thread starter Froz
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Hilarious
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as funny as that is, that yellow power cable scares me..
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rofl.
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wow, you must have had one heck of a res!
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Korndog said:
Little followup story to this. I came in on a Monday morning to "Don't bother going in there, the building isn't safe". Sure... I thought. After learning that the water was about 3 inches from the main power boxes and that the generator was under-water, I decided to follow the crowd and we emergency moved our servers (which thankfully are a level higher than that).
Long drawn out story and many flooding incidents later (last I heard we pumped near 750,000 gallons of water out this year. Although I must admit that early off they found that there was a break in the line which was causing teh outlet to feed into the natural spring back into the basement) : The sub-pump only works when it wants to. Reliability is so awful folks were saying it sabatoge.
We'll be putting a netcam and using the buddy sysetm for all future basement adventures. The only thing that saved the building was a toilet located off the subbasement up about a step. Water overflowed into the toilet and caused it to constantly flush, draining the basement into the sewer. Toilet has since been named "Emergency Commode" and is checked to make sure it is never plugged.
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lmao, where do you work!?
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Froz said:The only thing that saved the building was a toilet located off the subbasement up about a step. Water overflowed into the toilet and caused it to constantly flush, draining the basement into the sewer. Toilet has since been named "Emergency Commode" and is checked to make sure it is never plugged.
lmao, thats the funniest thing i've heard today
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Como said:
You'll be amazed to know that some monitors do indeed float. I was *speechless* (due to laughter). Seems like the lighter 15/17"s do float, but most don't.
Sorry though, my boss repeatedly commanded me to not test them out after they dried...
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that is truly funny, I fell of my chair from laughing. But TRY ONE OUT, come on you cant show us the pictures and then not tell us if the monitor died (take one home and try).
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HIlarious
dumb liabillity he is probably concercernd that you will kill your self and it will be his fault some how
"Emergency Comode"
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DarkDraco said:
the heavy *** ones sink. it's the light ones that float
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Actually, air has nothing to do with if an item will float, once an item displaces its weight in water, you have bouyancy. A gallon of water (.3cf) weighs around 7 pounds.
I had a scare when i was stuck in rental while house was being built, I had all my computer gear, well most of it, stuck in a garage, end game, lots of snow, idiot snow plower blocking drain into intra coastal, and rain, i was sweeping water out of garage, moving thing I valued higher and higher, waded hip deep in shorts into slush to break a way out for the water.. All machines in this story lived.
I had a scare when i was stuck in rental while house was being built, I had all my computer gear, well most of it, stuck in a garage, end game, lots of snow, idiot snow plower blocking drain into intra coastal, and rain, i was sweeping water out of garage, moving thing I valued higher and higher, waded hip deep in shorts into slush to break a way out for the water.. All machines in this story lived.
