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Data Center Flood Captured By Security Cam
miller60 writes "Torrential rains last week in Istanbul led to a flood that overwhelmed a data center for Vodafone. The event was captured on the data center security cameras, which shows waters rising and then raging through the security area before flooding the raised-floor equipment area."
Looks like somebody forgot to empty the bit bucket!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
NOOO!!!
talk about a flood attack..
Vodaphone Istanbul now features water cooled servers!
I Need someone to rebuild a Digitech Digital Delay pedal for me....for me...for me...for me.
"voda" means water in a few languages.
I mean Jeez, if kept the door closed, could have barricaded real easy with some plastic sheeting and filecabinets
Leaving aside that this looks like a pretty anonymous security desk/ reception area which could fron any sort of business, not just a data centre, the important point is, "what a fucking stupid place to build anything".
You can see from the window that this sort of flooding is nothing to be surprised at. The water is rising slowly and there's little apparent current, which implies that the site is a fair distance from the source of the rising river. Odds on, this is not a "flash flood", but a perfectly normal flood on the flood plain of a river.
Rivers flood ; they flood onto their flood plains ; floods can be avoided by the simple process of not being where the water ends up. I.E. don't stay on flood plains when there's significant rainfall.
OK, so people who have brought property on flood plains don't like this because they're going to lose money ; a lot of money. But that's their own fault for being so stupid as to invest in property on a flood plain.
No fucking sympathy at all. Let the stupid bastards drown as they go bankrupt.
I was on holiday recently in Mallorca, and also looking at photos of other firend's holidays in Spain. Where other people see a nice wide park area running through the middle of a town, with a tiny stream in a broad concrete channel, they see a public park. But I see a flood channel designed to take flash flooding. Same landscape, different perceptions.
Last month, we had the worst local rainfall for over 30 years (I've only lived here for 26 years). The rain was hammering down solidly for nearly 3 days ; the ignition leads in my car started complaining. And the drains outside my house overflowed ... and the water ran away downhill to cause flooding on the flood plain at the bottom of the hill. Well, that was a really difficult decision for me to make when I was house hunting, and it's paid off time and again already.
Learn some basic geography ; look at the shape of the landscape determined by the average climate of the last few thousand years. Then apply what you've learned and let someone else suffer the flooding.
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
Man, that was boring. No sea-monsters attacking unsuspecting techs and no tidal waves toppling racks of computers. I think there should be something to balance the ax-murder scene. Don't you?
Don't worry
Its standard procedure when dealing with 'lp0 printer on fire!' errors
Ok who dropped a cherry bomb in the toilet at the data center?
Life takes interesting turns, but the most interest is when you're off the beaten path.
Ikea office furniture floats. Noted for future reference.
Insightful and funny are really the same thing, except one has a punch line.
I think the funniest part of that video is at 5:25 where the cabinet falls over that the guy had tried putting things on top of earlier to save them...
It's now true I saw it in the Internet
Anyone catch 8:10? The cabinet in the lower-left corner glows blue for a moment! - maybe something out of the cameras direct field of vision, something electrical, just "popped"? !!?
Move the cursor around the highway's region and watch the altitude info in Google Earth and you'll see the highway is a low point. The flood followed the highway. The highway goes past an area 1.5 miles northeast where three 100-foot-deep ravines join into one, feeding a lake which usually has one small outlet that flows toward the highway. This five-foot-wide creek vanishes into a culvert under the highway. The highway was built over the stream which drains the region.
What you see outside the building is not rising backwater. You're seeing the river flowing through their parking lot.
That's a bad day for Vodafone. I wouldn't want to see the millions in damage that little incident caused
Error "GOD": Server Under Water.
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
Water + Electricity = Death. Try to remember that if you ever find yourself in a similar situation!
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