Saturday, January 3, 2015

First weekend craziness

Who knew the first 2 days up at school before school actually starts could be so downright ridiculous. When I got to school on Friday I discovered that some extremely kind person had turned off all the heaters in my apartment. Keep in mind that the average temperature here this time of the year is well below freezing. So when I got here I turned all the heaters back on- and had to sleep at a friends place because 10 hours later it was still too cold to stay here. I also discovered that the toilets were useless because they were iced over and that when you turned on the showers nothing happened. When I came back this morning I was surprised to find mattresses and dressers and blankets and clothing and sheets and shoes filling the living room, kitchen, and bathroom sinks (weird, right?) As I walked back the hallway carpet was torn up and there was a guy talking on a phone looking concerned. Correctly assuming he was a maintenance worker I listened to his conversation to figure out what was going on. In the middle of the night water had started pouring into the apartment below us and they had gone and pounded on the manager's door. The bedroom behind the showers was full of a few inches of water- and that bedroom is where two of my roommates who had to salvage stuff from the flood this spring live. Apparently one of the pipes had broken and by turning on the heaters I melted all the ice and filled their room up with water. So currently the carpet in their room has been ripped out and is attempting to dry- they tried to dry it by hanging it over the balcony but it just froze solid cause it was a whole 14 degrees. And most recently the power in the back 2 bedrooms has gone out for some bizarre reason and flipping the breakers didn't help so we're kind of at a loss. I hope this is the end of the drama for the semester!