When it rains it Pours

We had a nice little down pour last night. I have been helping out at Suburban hospital, and when I got to work today none of the computers worked and the phones only partly worked. They have been working on expanding suburban, and they have a 15 foot deep hole for the footings of the expansion. That was completely filled with rain water this morning and water was finding its way into the basement through a cracked phoneline conduit in the bottom of it. The amout of water was too much for the sumppump they had for the basement and that burned out and started to backfill. I guess that was happening since 3 then at about 4 the halon was shorted and went off, this is when they noticed something was wrong. IST was called about 5 when the firemarshel was ready to kill the power on everything in the computer room. Someone from IST got there around 6, there was 8 inches of water in the computer room. One of the server guys was able to shut down most of the stuff from home before he got there so there was not much he needed to take down. At this point everything but voicemail is up. Voice mail is completely waterlogged and will not be up until next week sometime. There is no standing water, but there is a layer of mud. The hole for the footing is pretty much empty too. That is a really big hole. Could have left it as is and had a nice swimming pool.