By Aubrey Carr
The University of South Florida St. Petersburg Campus students were shocked when water flooded the Pelican Apartments Residence Hall.
The St. Petersburg Housing department received a report on Oct. 6 of a blocked toilet located at the 5th floor. The overflowing toilet flooded the entire room, including the floor below.
The fifth, fourth, and third floor student rooms were affected, while the IT closets on the first-floor also flooded.
Susan Kimbrough is the Director of Housing and Residential Education at the St. Petersburg Campus. She said that a water damage restoration and repair company had been called immediately.
She said that the University’s Facilities Team, HRE Team and Atalian Custodial staff had also worked hard to restore affected areas to allow displaced students to return as soon as possible to their apartment.
Kimbrough stated that the team at the Housing Department is grateful for the students’ support during the floods.
Kimbrough stated, “We would like to thank all those who helped out on that particular day. We also want to show our gratitude for the cooperation and understanding of residential students during this difficult situation.”
Amanda Weakley said that water started seeping out of her bathroom during the night and woke up the entire dorm.
My roommate woke me up at 4:30 am to tell me that my bathroom had a leak. She said that there was an inch or so of water on the floor around the toilet, and also water coming from the ceiling.
Weakley stated that there was an inch or so of water on the floor around the toilet and water dripping from the ceiling. “It seeped from under the baseboards above the sink, then from both the bathroom ceilings,” Weakley added.
Weakley, her roommate and the other residents were able to stay in their rooms during repairs. However, if damage became too serious they could be moved into emergency housing.
Weakley explained that “[housing] decided to do was tear up all the baseboards and remove a ceiling tiles, then install loud industrial fans in our dorms for about a weeks time.”
Weakley claims that while housing began to repair the dorm quickly, updates have been halted since.
Housing handled the situation in a timely fashion at first. The fans were installed five hours after the first sign of water damage. She said that it has been several weeks since the first signs of water damage and the department responsible for housing had not provided any further updates.
Thalia Lafaille said that the damages were extensive. She lived in the dormitory where the flooding began. She said, “Water moved from my room and the rooms of two of my roommates to the kitchen and then our roommates, outside our dorm, in the hall, in front of our common room and then finally in the emergency room on the 5th floor.”
The things that were under the beds of everyone in our dorm room, whether they be wet or not, had a foul smell. For a few weeks, our dorm was filled with a bad smell. Lafaille told Housing that this was their worst flooding ever.
Lafaille, her roommates and their other classmates were relocated to alternate accommodations on campus. They are still in those rooms.
It’s now been three weeks. She said, “I hope to be back in my dorm before the end of this semester with my roommates.”
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