Every building has it's quirks. Some buildings are known by their ghost fire alarms that only appear in the system but don't go off, other buildings are known by their growing pains when they open. Others are know by being temperamental. PV West is one of the temperamental ones.
During the beginning of the fall semester, one of our elevators broke. Being a building with well over 700 residents, it cause a lot of problems for about four months. PVW is about.. 40 years old. The elevators haven't been updated so it's very very hard to find parts to fix a broken elevator.
Eventually, about a couple weeks before finals, our elevators were fixed. They had to strip parts off one of the PV East's elevator to fix ours.
I'm digressing.
About two months ago, there was a flood in the building. When it got called in, I thought it was a simple toilet overflowing, wet carpet and that's about it.
It was a bit more.
The whole first floor flooded. The pipes backed up and it all came out on the first floor. Some rooms only backed up in the shower stalls or toilets. A few of the rooms were more damaged. The blackwater got onto the resident's possessions and walls and about three rooms had to be placed somewhere else for about 2.5 weeks.
The damage was so bad that carpet had to be removed, walls had to be torn down, everything had to be cleaned. It was an extensive process. The whole first floor had a very unique smell for a while, maintenance people were in and out for a few weeks and residents were placed all over campus.
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It sounds like last semester was pretty chaotic for you! I lived in the dorms for the one year I went to Kansas State University and I can remember several problems that we had. I lived on the third floor and we actually had our bathroom flood too! But it wasn't quite to the degree that PVW had to deal with. No one's room was damaged but the carpet right outside the bathroom was soaking wet and it made the hallway smell terrible! On the third floor there were three wings, 2 girls and 1 guys. Since our bathroom was broken we had to share with the other wing which was a nightmare. I remember my RA was so stressed out that week from dealing with the girls. I bet for anyone working in the residence halls it would be stressful to deal with any situation like that. But it sounds like you survived! Do you think they'll ever tear down PV West or East as they continue to have problems like that?
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