Ok, so I live on the top floor of my dorm building, and last night there was a ton of rain in my college town, and at 2:30am I was woken up by water dripping on my foot. I got up, and stepped into puddles all along the floor. I woke up my roommate and turned on the light. There were numerous leaks in our ceiling, and in quite a few places the paint on the wall had bulged out with pockets of water filling them, threatening to burst, including one huge one about a half gallon in size right over this computer I'm writing on right now. We freaked out, called maintenance (and got an automated answering machine, where "After hours emergencies" wasn't listed until #3 (I mean, seriously, when it is after hours I feel that should be listed #1)), and started emptying assorted plastic boxes we had to try and catch water, and set up a bucket underneath the giant one.
after 10 minutes of us panicking and emptying boxes and moving electronic stuff and unplugging things the light covering suddenly crashed down with a loud splash, as it had apparently been filling up with water for the past few hours. I very well believe I could have died from some sort of panic attack at that moment if I was more susceptible to them.
20 more minutes later 3 maintenance men come in and talk about what's going on (the general consensus was "Holy Crap") and started popping bubbles of water as they held buckets under them. Then they went up into the roof and came back declaring that the drainage chimneys had clogged, causing the insulation to flood which manifested itself in bursting through our walls and being caught by paint. They cleared the clog and said that after a few hours the remaining water in the walls should be done draining, and no more water should be seeping in as it (continues to) rain.
My roommate and I set up a ton of buckets around the room, and mopped up all the water with my secondary towel. I tried to go back to sleep in my bed, but I couldn't fall asleep till 6:30, after which I was woken up at 7:45 by my alarm to get ready for class. My roommate's bed was soaked, so he slept on the inflatable couch we have. He slept just fine.
Oh, and before all of this, as I was sleeping and getting woken up by water dripping on my foot, water was dripping on my roommate's foot and face, and in his drowsy state he says he recognized that water was dripping on him, but his brain didn't classify it as something worth worrying about, so he kept sleeping.
The sum total damage seems to be a bunch of waterlogged notebooks and textbooks from previous years that I had under my bed as references to use if I got confused on my current year's work. And a bunch of duct tape (when we were trying to tape buckets up underneath the bubbles in case they popped) and paper towels. And both our sheets got quite wet with rainwater soaked in insulation (hopefully not asbestos based (which isn't fully incomprehensible b/c 2 yrs ago a dorm near the dorm i lived in freshman yr was torn down b/c of aerosol-ized asbestos))
Now next week sometime we're gonna get booted from our room for a few hours as they strip the damaged paint and repaint it (apparently they have a paint w/o fumes, so we'll still be able to live in the room while it dries).
Uggggghhh, so tired, and so sick of this crazy shit.
tl;dr: God sent a deluge unto our dorm, but we persevered.
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