One night in 1996, an unusually hard rain sent a wall of water onto the campus of Colorado State University (CSU) in Fort Collins, Colo. The flood gutted the ground floor and basement levels of 14 buildings, submerging main distribution frames in each building. Panels were ripped from walls, rooms filled with mud, patch cords floated away, and fiber optic cable filled with water. No one on campus was hurt but, needless to say, the network was down.