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Re: The power of water

  • From: Pete Ehlke
  • Date: Sun Oct 20 17:51:20 2002 
On Sun, Oct 20, 2002 at 01:22:50PM -0400, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote:
> 
> I've had to deal with assorted water problems, thankfully not 
> recently.  Some lessons were learned.  These water problems were 
> indirectly or directly caused by firefighting.
> 
> 1. When the data/comm center is on a bottom floor, consider floor drains at
>    the time of installation. Might want emergency access to pumps, or even
>    wet-dry shop vacs.
> 
Corrolary:

If your data center is on the ground floor or in the basement, remember
that the sump pump must be on a UPS/generator protected circuit.

Not that I learned this one the hard way or anything. *cough*

-P.