Thoughts from a soggy mind - best served Cold

Tuesday 27th February 2007 will be remembered as one of the weirdest tuesdays i ever had: The Residents’ Committee decided to have a Random Tuesday (basically it just means a trip to the bar) but things got much more random afterwards!

At about 10pm last night, i had just finished doing my laundry and was on the way to jason’s room when i heard the familiar sound of splitter-spatter associated with rain…but wait! It’s much louder! It’s….Hail!!

Haha…at this juncture you’d probably think I’m being a lil paranoid here..it’s just some ice rite? Yeah…it was SOME ice! it went on and on and on; about 30 minutes of icy cold missile attack before the ceiling(well, part of) in block B started leaking and that tripped the smoke detector. Yeah..ironic that it was water that set the fire alarm ringing.

So the SRs went into Emergency Mode and everyone was evacuated into the common room for 45 minutes while the fire brigade checked everything out. I finally got to bed at about 12.30am with my biol1003 pre-reading left untouched =( by then the leaky ceiling had already collapsed and the courtyard flooded with ice. not to mention that it was impossible to get to the laundry room without freezing your feet up to your ankles…what an escape for me!

Just to illustrate my point of how much ice there was, check these out (note: all pics courtesy of Yeam, who went out with other ursies at about 1am to take these exquisite pics =] ):

The rubbish dumpsite at the back of Ursula Hall

Union Court now looks more like a square in Russia!

This was how big the ice cubes(?) were…on average.

We ended up having no classes today….and maybe tomorrow as well! The damage was very bad, it seems…They announced via PA this morning that all classes are cancelled. And i got this from the anu website:

Campus Closure update Wednesday 28 February 2007
28 February, 2007

By Director, Marketing and Communications

The
storm on Tuesday night caused damage to some 70 buildings on the ANU
campus. Damage ranges from relatively minor to extensive.

Students

Owing
to the damage to our teaching spaces, the University will not conduct
lectures, tutorials or laboratory sessions on Wednesday 28 February,
Thursday 1 March or Friday 2 March.

A very limited set of education programs will run, and students should check this webpage from time to time for updates.

It is likely that on-campus access to limited information resources will be restored on Friday 2 March.

ANU
Medical School students: Please check up-to-date information re
teaching program arrangement on Medonline
https://medonline.anu.edu.au/login/login.a
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Omg…while on one hand it’s nice to have an unexpected break, i can’t imagine how it’s gonna be when i have to replace 6 hours worth of labs =(

Oh well…in the meantime, i’m just gonna take a short break before i resume my studies…All in all, this was a really RANDOM tuesday!

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