[AusNOG] OT : Data Center Flood Captured By Security Cam

[Sean K. Finn]

Off Topic, but here's an impressive vid of a datacenter before and during a flood in turkey. Happened 3 days ago.

miller60 writes "Torrential rains last week in Istanbul led to a flood that overwhelmed a data center<http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/09/14/video-data-center-floods-in-istanbul/> 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."

http://idle.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/09/16/1555252

At approx 5 to 6 minutes it crosses to the server rooms / cabinets, with the water rising up to about half way.

-Sean.

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