Karma...

Well, Sandy came and went...  She (or He?) decided just to view the NC Coast from a distance and save her (or his?) gusto for New England.  We had some wind and rain, but nothing significant.  It wasn't any worse than a regular rainy weekend in my neck of the woods.

My media center, however, had a rough start today.  I blame Traci from the classroom underneath it, though.  You know what they say about Karma...  

On Friday, Traci came up and helped us cover the stacks.  She made the point of saying we were wasting our time.  Terry, my media assistant, told her flat-out if we cover the stacks, nothing happens.  If we don't cover the stacks, the ceiling falls in and we lose books.  We have the holes in the ceiling in 3 or 4 places to prove our theory.  Traci informed us she, however, didn't need to bother covering things in her room because, "The only way my room will get wet is if the library floods out!"  

Yeah, good thinking, Traci.

The roof didn't leak.  The stacks were dry and secure when we came in this morning.  I walked the whole library inspecting the ceiling all the way around.  Traci said, "See, told you it was a waste of time."

About 30 minutes later, a pipe burst.  It flooded the library and ran through the floors down into Traci's room.  She's lucky I had the good sense to run downstairs to check and move her computers out of the way cuz that's EXACTLY where the water was dripping.  It eventually spread to drip on her kids at their desks, too, but we eventually got to the pipe and could cut the water off and start working at drying things out.  Nasty pink water, too...  The floors were soaked in the workroom and the carpet on either side of it at the doors.  The copiers were standing in inches of water...  It seeped through the into the video room and flooded that out, and it seeped under the cabinets, through the walls, under my Fiction stacks and out into the carpet of the Fiction area by my seating out there.  It was lovely.  Blah.

It took a while for the custodians to bring up a shop vac and fans, but things were drying out by the time I left.  I'm sure it'll be moldy and yucky soon, though.  My poor library!

I blame Traci.  LOL, even if you THINK it, you should NEVER EVER say it out loud or it happens.  Kinda like car trouble -- it only happens if you forget to grab your cell phone off the charger before you left...  Oooh, and you only get stuck behind a school bus when you're running late...  All those wonderful things.  :)

Tomorrow's election day -- the kids in school are coming up to vote for President.  Let's see how that goes. :)   Hopefully everything will be dry and cooperative!