A clusterfuck of epic proportions
I do not normally cuss overmuch on this blog, but sometimes there is no other term that is capable of fully describing a situation than “clusterfuck”.
Over the last couple of days, there has been a huge buzz about the internet regarding the explosion at The Planet’s H1 datacenter facility. The Planet, by the way, is the company at which I work, so I have a bit of an insider’s view at what happened, and it is not pretty. It also happens that I live only a few blocks away from the building in which the explosion occurred.
I spent the better part of today working in the damaged building, trying to facilitate the moving of servers to an area that was still functional or to our other Houston datacenter. At one point during the day, I snuck back to the area where the explosion had taken place. My experience in firefighting and damage control (courtesy of the U.S. Navy) was enough to tell me that this situation could have been much worse.
I cannot go too deep into details because of privacy restrictions, but I can put some of the following rumors to rest:
It was not an FBI raid.
The building was not blown up in an insurance fraud scam.
The building was not attack by aliens (as far as I know).
There was no experimental project testing mutagenic particles on humans.
Anyway, if anyone wants to know the official story, you can check out the forum in which all updates are being posted.
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Hey!!! Why didn’t I get invited to the BBQ?
“There was no experimental project testing mutagenic particles on humans.”
No?
No superpowers for me then I guess.
damn.
Yeah. I was kind of disappointed about that, too.