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The hall flooded today. I was just, you know, hanging out in my bed at 10:30 this morning, when all of the sudden there's this sort of water-running noise, like someone was taking a shower, but a little different. I just ignored it, brushing it off as one of my suitemates in the shower, when I hear this pounding on the door. I just sit up in bed and I'm like "Uh?" and this guy in a custodial uniform throws open the door and says, "Get your stuff off the floor. Water's coming!" So I just sort of get out of bed and I'm like, "What is this guy talking about?" and head toward the door to look out in the hall and see what's going on when I see water seeping into the room from under the door. This is the part where I go, "WHOA" and start systematically throwing things on the bed and couch and chairs starting at the front of the room and working my way back to prevent them from getting soaked. Unfortunately, I missed a pile of dirty clothes (mine) sitting under the couch, but by the time I noticed them the water was covering the floor about a centimeter thick and just kept rising while I sat helplessly on my bed wondering what the heck was going on. Since Cristen wasn't in the room I had to try to get all of her stuff, too, but I missed a couple of things and they got sort of very damp, but nothing that won't be alright. The following is a police sketch of the scene.

It was pretty intense. As you can see, Cristen got swept away in the current of sewage water. It was pretty tragic. Luckily, we were able to recover her with no damage done. She was just a little shaken. Pretty accurate, jess? ("yes", for those of you that don't speak Indian... Tipti.) Okay, so this is maybe slightly exaggerated in the way of quantity of the water, but it's pretty accuracte as to what was IN the water. Lots of toilet paper... hilighters, pencils, pennies and dimes and nickels at the bottom... It was DISGUSTING. There was toilet paper floating on my floor. Nothing really got damaged. Ashley and Rachel lost their carpet, as did my Emily and Jessica (my suitemates). So here's what happened:

The toilet for the girls across the hall wasn't flushing, so they put in a work order to get someone to fix it. The maintenance guy came and took care of it this morning... or so he thought. When he tried to flush it, the top of the flushy thing randomly blew off, hit the ceiling, and water started spewing everywhere. I had about a minute to pick everything off the floor before the water filled the room. It was definitely gross, and because of the distrubance I lost valuable study hours, and I have two finals on Friday. That's gross, too.

Genesis 7: 11
"In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month: it was on that day that
All the fountains of the great abyss burst forth, and the floodgates of the sky (watermain) were opened."