Good news: No flood problems! Now the bad news...

It's 1999, and this engineer pilot fish has been dispatched to investigate a flood -- in the upper floors of a building in New York City.

"Seems that at a major telecom hub in lower Manhattan, a cooling pipe in an upper-floor space let go, flooding the space of a very large telecom provider below," says fish.

"The telecom provider wanted me to inspect their equipment and report on whether there would be corrosion or other delayed effects from the flood."

So, first thing that rainy morning, fish takes a train into the city and walks to the building, which once housed most of the telecommunications in Manhattan but has grown into a large collection of data centers and physical layer interconnect facilities.

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