Excitement at the General

I got to work today and I noticed some smoke from the other side of one of the buildings across from the main building. When I was crossing the street to the main building I saw a bunch of people running across to that area. I decided to just head up to my office... I would be able to see that area from one of the offices up on my floor. When I got in the build I notice there were not many lights on but really did not think twice about that. I got to the elevators and they were out, so I ran up the stairs to the fifth floor. There was no power in my area and the data center was on generator power. I looked out the windows on the one side and there was smoke coming from the power house. The fire trucks started showing up shortly after that. The A building, the tower, was mostly on normal power and the rest of the site was all on generator power. Well, the hospital was now at a code orange status(disaster). I got a page from the code orange command center that they were not able to get the phones working, so I headed down there. Come to find out someone had decided to move the command center to an unused area in the A building, because there was no power in the boardroom, where the command center is suppose to be. They should have stayed in the board room and opened the curtains. Well, I got a couple of phones working for them and they pulled out the emergency cell phones. Because I was there, I became the IST person for this disaster. So, there were Administrators, managers and then me in the command center. I ended up stay there for most of the morning, relaying information. A little before 11 o'clock, the COO came in and briefed us on what the electric company was saying at that point. They were still in the process of seeing what damage there was, and that we were likely not going to be back to full power most of the day. At this point it was decided that I could be pulled out of the command center and head over to Children's Hospital, where I was suppose to help out this afternoon and all next week.