Those programmers in DP (including Cathy Lester) who worked Memorial Day weekend, 1981 on the conversion to Adabas couldn’t go home because of flooding.
There was a flood in Taylor Hall underground where the nuclear reactor was. Responders wearing hazmat suits told students and staff that everything was o.k. and they could go back in the building.
A fire in the computation center melted reel tapes, probably back in the 70s.