This shows great dedication on behalf of the team to provide a temporary solution to a more permanent problem. Well done. More importantly, though - and not to

This shows great dedication on behalf of the team to provide a temporary solution to a more permanent problem. Well done. More importantly, though - and not to discredit any of the hard work that's been done - hopefully the companies take a look at why the problem was created in the first place. For instance: why were the generators on the 17th floor? Why were the pumps below ground? Why was the datacenter built in a floodzone in the first place? This is not unlike a lot of problems we face in software - developers bearing the consequences of poor planning.