“California Water Service Co. crews are cleaning up what’s left of a major water leak that left more than a foot of water lining the floor of an Apple Computer Inc. building in Cupertino early Wednesday morning,” CBS5.com reports.
“At one point more than 100 gallons of water per minute were flooding into the building from a leak under the first floor, a Santa Clara County Fire Department dispatcher said,” CBS5.com reports.
CBS5.com reports, “The leak was first reported at 12:55am… California Water Service Co. crews shut off water to the building at approximately 2:30 a.m. Wednesday and are working to clean up damaged areas of the building, the dispatcher said.”
Full article here.
Unfortunately for the rumor mill, that’s the only real leak at Apple right now. (Hopefully, there were no Mac Pros sitting on the floor or Xserves mounted low in racks in that building.)
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No! They can’t tell which building is flooded. It’s a well-kept Apple secret!
One word….
iFlood
It was a botched test of the new Arkintosh Home Disaster Kit that was supposed to be the “one more thing” at the MWSF 2007 keynote. Shhhh.
Jobs: “Somebody grab an iMop!”
Good time to test the submersible iPod prototype.
it was a building at the site of the new Apple campus. it isn’t in use.
nothing to see here.
I guess Apple developers finally took Aqua realism experience a step too far.
As someone who works in the heating & plumbing business, a foot of water in the basement is nothing.
Want a mess? Try showing up at a customer’s building with water literally running out the front door. That pars with a top-floor leak that runs all night & deluges everything below.
Deals like Apple’s flood are more common than you might think.
Only one question remains: do iPods float?
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The basement which held several critical computer banks was flooding, and the idiot security kept us from going down there and saving equipment and data.
Must’ve been the same guard from Apple legend, i.e. the one who was going to report Steve & the Mac team for some silly violation, that is until he got Steve’s employee number. Oops.
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My favorite story? We needed to get some people into a secured area (they had prior clearance and passes). At the entrance was a hot-shot guard who was gonna show who was king. Or so he thought, until he looked at the passes and mumbled “Oh… You have higher clearance than I do…”. Gotta love it sometimes.
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It is true, MDN does not generate original content.
So why be a jerk Chester Drawers??
I like this site and all, but it’s more than obvious MDN has no internal contacts/resources.
It is what it is.
Thanks.
Mac Genius:
This happened 12 years ago? My, how history repeats itself. Here’s a hint for the rest of the folks at Apple. If you don’t install isolated plumbing circuits with self-monitoring valves get a couple heavy duty sump pumps. Otherwise, Steve’ll have to tell people to “Get out of the pool again, guys.”
This reminds me of that time the basement at the Alamo flooded…
@big aqua
“Only one question remains: do iPods float?”
I don’t know, but I know a Zune will if you eat enough fiber.
“Unfortunately for the rumor mill, that’s the only real leak at Apple right now.”
But you guys have no qualms whatsoever about reporting rumored “leaks” anyway. Great journalism.