[Cialug] Fwd: Des Moines Flooding

[Nathan C. Smith]

I have a personal rule where I never put a machine directly on my basement floor (even in a basement full of machines).  It's mostly to minimize dust and spider co-locations but it served me well when the water came in once.

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Dave J. Hala Jr.
> Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 9:03 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Fwd: Des Moines Flooding
>
> I live at the crest of a hill at one of the highest points in
> Marshalltown. 2 weeks ago when we had the first 4 inch rain,
> I had 2 inches of water in my basement. Some creative sump
> pump hacking and I'm back to some manageable wetness.
>
> I'm so glad I'm got this habit of setting my computers a
> couple of inches off the floor.
>
>
>
>
> :) Dave
>
> On Tue, 2008-06-10 at 20:55 -0500, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> > Just got this in the email from my church. Maybe they're being
> > alarmist, but my basement's already had 1/4" of water in it in the
> > last 7 days and if we do get another 6" some of it will for
> sure be in
> > my house. I'm taking precautions.
> >
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