Computer flooring/flooding/water in computer rooms

Ah yes, flooding. Water and 20A 120 don't like mixing too much. One weekend back in 2002, my pointy-haired boss decided that we are going to have the mini-fridge sit DIRECTLY NEXT TO the very early 90's rack mount 80+ LB. APC 2000VA direct-wire unit (wire from wiring panel/breakers through wall, out hole, directly connected to UPS)... on the FLOOR. Brilliant, I know. The main purpose was to get drinks and snacks while working on machines on the bench directly above them (or so his reasoning went). So, since he moved it, he figured, what the hell; unplug it and let the ice thaw from the freezer part and leave its door open to drain the water to the concrete floor. On top of this, he had stopped by the offices on Saturday (closed weekends) a day later and forgot to completely close the back door which is only 8-10 feet from said UPS and fridge. I'm betting all of you could figure out what happened when a heavy rain storm hit Saturday night and the building IS slightly below ground level at the back door area (door bottom up to 1 foot was made to keep water out from flooding due to known issue in area). Luckily, only thing that happened was a circuit breaker tripped. Dried out the UPS and it worked fine. We always dared him to check the UPS wiring or the unit for charge when servicing it to ensure the batteries were good (as paranoid as we were, we checked every 6 months). You guy's stories are more interesting though as per the capability of larger loss and a lot more water. Just thought I'd contribute my little bit. BTW: anyone else have a pointy haired boss who was equally dumb in deciding to run things such as UPS's on floor level? -John Boffemmyer IV At 04:26 AM 5/29/2004, you wrote: ---------------------------------------- Founder, Lead Writer, Tech Analyst and Web Designer Boff-Net Technologies http://boff-net.dhs.org/index.html ---------------------------------------