CG2 Machine Room
Photos of Flood Damage
On August 8, 2003, CGD's Machine Room was flooded from above when the construction crew left large holes on the roof covered only with sheets of plastic. A hail storm destroyed the plastic, causing water to flood the whole building. CGD's Machine Room was on the 2nd of 3 floors. When ISG head Mark Moore arrived Friday night after being called by NCAR Security, he found waterfalls flowing over CGD's servers. Miraculously, our servers suffered no immediately apparent damage that night, despite an ungraceful poweroff (Mark pulled the plugs once he saw the waterfalls flowing over the equipment.)
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On the left is anchorage, CGD's compute cluster.
Here are the rest of our servers.
Here is a cubicle on the 3rd floor.
Here is another cubicle, soaked with water.
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