[43894] in Hotline Meeting
N42 Flood Update (case 113491)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Welch)
Mon Jun 22 08:18:02 1998
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 98 08:17:58 EDT
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
From: Joe Welch <joewelch@MIT.EDU>
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>Date: Sun, 14 Jun 1998 11:38:34 +0100
>To: infosys@MIT.EDU
>From: Bill Hogue <hogue@MIT.EDU>
>Subject: N42 Flood Update
>
>Good morning. I probably will send subsequent email to more selective
>email lists so I don't clutter your inbox, but I thought you might
>appreciate one more update.
>
>The situation is improved this morning, though still rather disheartening.
>The N42 lower level is essentially disabled and my guess is that it will be
>several days at best before we resume normal operations on that level.
>There is still some standing water and the carpet is saturated; since the
>water probably had a very high bacterial count, we will want to discourage
>unnecessary access to the floor. It does not appear that the water rose
>high enough to wet the fabric of the partitions or dampen contents of low
>level file drawers -- a very lucky break. We have not yet organized an
>effort to test the integrity of systems on that level.
>
>My guess is that we will ask residents of the lower level to relocate
>temporarily to vacant workstations in first floor call center areas, or to
>take laptops to shared conference rooms or vacant cubicles. That combined
>with phone forwarding should help us remain at least minimally operative.
>After we get an idea of the cleanup procedure and timeline we may also need
>to relocate essential paper files.
>
>Thank you for the offers of assistance already received. I'm sure that
>we'll be calling on many of you for help in the next few days.
>
>Bill
>
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Joseph Welch
Technical Assistant
Athena Deployment Team
MIT, Room E40-362
E-Mail joewelch@mit.edu
Phone (617)253-1530
