>When I worked at Ampex Corporation (we invented video recording and a few other things) one of my jobs was to manage the calibration/metrology departments. I put in a request for $175,000 of test and measurement equipment so we could calibrate our own video equipment for corporate use. This would be a huge cost saving and getting the budget approved took 3 years and lots of meetings with vice presidents.
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>A new roof had been put on the building and was completed just as the new equipment arrived. We set up the equipment in a 7 foot tall relay rack cabinet we had just purchased. So impressive! Just before it was time to go home we had completed check out and all was well.
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>The next morning at 0630 I arrived at work through a driving rainstorm. The guys stopped me at the door. “Tom, don’t come in yet. You have to hear what happened”! After telling me what happened I could not believe it. The rain had leaked in one spot in the building (about 100,000 square feet) right on top of the new equipment rack! Everything was ruined.
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>I called our vice president who also took care of facilities and he said he had just changed our insurance policy. I would have to have had a minimum of $200,000 loss for the policy to kick in. The first 200,000 was not covered. So all was a loss. It took three more years to get my new equipment.
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>If only I had those two buckets in the picture! :)

Yeah, but it would have taken that first rainstorm to figure out where to place the buckets. :(