You're not being paranoid.  Paranaoia is an imagined fear of danger.
At a former company, we had a data center in Reading, PA, nowhere near
a river that might over flow, but during a storm someone decided to
release water from a reservoir.  End result - seven feet of water in
the computer room.

Major Credit Union in San Francisco has a Honda pump running full time
keeping underground river out.

If you've got two or more floors, don't ever let a computer center get
built on the ground floor.

Check with off site storage and disaster planning companies for
support.

--- "Black, Cory" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> If I'm being paranoid just tell me.  My employer is
> moving next year to a
> building that is now under construction.  The powers
> that be have decided to
> put the data center in a room that is on grade level
> rather than 1 level up,
> as it is now. Does anyone know where I can find
> information on flooding
> potential, etc. to present to management about the
> dangers of a grade level
> data center?
>

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