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NOAA/NWS data center water pipe burst
From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 09:48:21 -0500 (EST)
At 10:30 a.m. on March 9, 2021, the National Weather Service (NWS) Headquarters building located in Silver Spring, Maryland, known as Silver Spring Metro Complex 2 (SSMC-2), experienced a ruptured water pipe, which caused significant and widespread flooding on the 7th floor and below. NWS maintains a data center on one of the affected floors. When flooding wasdiscovered, power to the data center was turned off to protect the equipment and personnel who were onsite.
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