Water, water everywhere...
If the several feet of snow on the ground weren't enough, the pipe bursting in the law tower over the weekend nicely added to the ambient moisture content. Students haven't been too affected - the water was mostly isolated on the 4th floor, where all the (now extremely soggy) administration offices are - except that it forced some elevators out of service. It's already questionable whether the existing 6 elevators were adequate for getting everyone where they needed to go (it's a 17-story building), and as it is one elevator has been out of commission for several weeks while they try to upgrade the entire service. The deluge has left us then with only 3 functioning elevators, which is definitely not sufficient. (Lots of people have been late to class.)
And for still more flooding fun, today there was also this (from another department at BU):
From [an administrator]
To [affected students]@bu.edu
Subject Grad student lounge closed due to weather damageDear students,
Please be advised that the Graduate Student Lounge in the basement of [a different building] is currently closed due to weather damage. The door was either blown open or accidentally left open during the blizzard, and the water damage from the resulting snow is currently being cleaned. All power to the area has been cut off, and the extent of damage to the computers is not yet known. We will do our best to repair it, but at this point it is unclear whether that will happen in the near future. In the meantime, please plan to do your studying and socializing elsewhere while Building and Grounds attempts to dry it out.
Stay tuned for next week, when BU will be visited by a plague of locusts.