Lights Out - Update

A little excitement at the office today! An hour or so after I got in to the office, I noticed some Otis elevator people in the office and on the roof. Come to find out that the elevators had all stopped working. They had just figured out that there was no power to the elevators about the time I was noticing water on the stairwell landing on the very top floor (even with the elevator motors) and on the 25th floor where the elevator electrical controls are located. Obviously there was some sort of leak, and with the steady rain something must have gotten wet and thrown the circuit breaker. Meanwhile, a couple of the staff arrive in the office, rather exhausted after hiking up 25 flights of stairs. So we're sitting there wondering when they will get the elevators working again when there's a big explosion (about 30 feet from us) and the lights flicker a few times and then go out altogether. I can hear someone screaming from the elevator electrical room, and about that time one of the guys runs in from the roof and asks if we have a fire extinguisher. I was standing right next to it, so I hand it to him and follow him out the door. There's smoke billowing out of the electrical room and some sort of secondary alarm has now gone off. The main building fire alarm never sounded. Luckily, the sprinklers didn't activate either. So we gather up our laptops and evacuate down 25 flights to street level. Just as I'm leaving, one of the guys who was in there told me it was under control and they had put out the electrical fire that had started when they tried to switch the elevators back to normal power (extremely bad move under the circumstances). So anyway, eventually they let people back into the building, although of course the elevators were all out. I trudged back up 25 flights only to find that our floor, unlike the rest of the building, has no power, so I guess I'll be working from home today. No problema. Since Katrina, I'm set up to work anywhere!