Oh yes it is my birthday today. As if the shock of turning 27 was not enough, I had a pretty wild experience today. Read on to know more.

As usual, I landed into office at 11:30 (don’t ask, I do that everyday). Everything was as usual, checked on a few emails, logged on to twitter to see everyone wishing me and likewise with Facebook. I also chatted with colleagues in India with regards to some work I had assigned them and got to work.

Now somewhere around 12:30PM or so, we heard water dripping down the windows, it was happening where the AC was, so we assumed that the old beaten AC was dripping. Then it started, water was flowing into our office from all the Windows, we thought that the stupid maintenance guys were letting of water from the terrace, we closed all the windows, but still water came in through the closed windows, just imagine the force.

I went out and what did I see? The elevators were flooded with water, water everywhere. I ran out and was near the door, when I saw that people from our building were rushing out opening their umbrellas, I just thought that it was raining very heavily and yes in front of our building it was raining like a torrential rain.

However, when I saw across the road, there was no rain. That is when I realized that one of the pipes in our building had burst.

Wohoo, Happy Birthday. Well, our office was pretty badly affected as we were on the top, the ceilings started leaking and more. However, we were able to pack everything and move important things to dry places. Thank god the area near our dev servers did not get wet, or else kaboom.

The fire department guys came in and told us to switch off all the electricity. Now no going to office till Monday, but man climbing up and down 7 floors in the fire evacuation stairs definitely had its toll on me. I may just get cozy and sleep for sometime, Birthday dreams here I come.

On a sad note, water is really devastating and my heart goes out to those who were affected by floods in Andhra and Karnataka, this small experience has shown me how devastating water can be, it can ruin anything and everything in a matter of few minutes.

This is definitely a birthday, I will not forget in a long long time. Phew.

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