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[gosling]

Huge flood at my school today. My classroom has water everywhere, and many of the ceiling tiles have collapsed all over the place from the weight of the water. Everything is drenched from the waterfall that appeared this afternoon and apparently lasted at least an hour.

(We had a smaller one this morning that we managed to contain better. This was impossible to contain, and, as we were told to evacuate, we couldn't do much about it anyway.)

We took the kids over to another building, and some of them had to wait over an hour until their parents showed up.

After all the kids were gone, I went over, and it looked like something out of a movie: water dripping and all over everything, parts of the ceiling collapsed, all the lights out (as they are full of water.)

what a mess.

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[mattlistener.livejournal.com]

My my, physical plant disaster! Know what caused it? Were the teaching supplies ruined? :-(

[ceo]

[channeling gosling]
Near as I can tell, a whole bunch of stuff was ruined, but I can't get in there yet to tell.

Apparently a burst pipe somewhere above the 4th floor. Those apartments got flooded too.

[gosling.livejournal.com]

To clarify: I kind of got to glance at things a bit on my way through, but I wasn't able to go through anything in any detail. There's clearly a fair amount of damage, especially as our storage area was under one of the most heavily flooded areas, but I couldn't get up in the storage area (which is accessed by a ladder) to see. All the toys we had to abandon on the floor (as once the alarms started going off we were expected to evacuate immediately) were soaked, however, and a lot of our storage bins on the floor appear to be full of water. Also, the carpets are soaked, and unlikely to dry before they mildew.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Ergh!

Good luck with it! Eeep!

[keyne.livejournal.com]

Oh no. :( Does the school have insurance to hire mold-abatement crews and the like?

(The Carlisle elementary school went through something similar last summer, so if you need me to track down information I can try...)

[gosling.livejournal.com]

I'm almost certain we have insurance for just about everything. :-)

And there are crews in there dealing with the water, so hopefully they intervened early enough to at least keep the mold out of the carpets and walls.