drip and drop

Shortly after our week-long warm up, my roommates and I noticed the disturbing sound of pitter-patter on our carpet. Sure enough, with the snow melt, comes a leaky roof. Unfortunately, we are on the 2nd of two floors in our building near the edge of the building where the water runs to.

First, I have a picture of a notice that went up two days ago (if you can't read it, click on the image and it will open in a new window):Interestingly enough, Laura is an engineer on station. In fact, she is the ONLY engineer on station this week and she is leaving for the South Pole on Saturday. I'm curious how one engineer, who has her plate full without leaks, would resolve such a complex and annual problem:Buckets, of course!

This is a picture of my roommate, Etosha's, corner of the room. You will note the tiles got quite soggy and heavy. Most of our buckets and containers are dicreetly stashed on top of the ceiling tiles. All of our beds have managed to stay dry thus far. When walking up and down the halls, there are a few bucket obstacle courses on the floor that can make a bleary-eyed morning person really wish they were back in bed!

To Laura's credit, I'm going to guess that engineers have been trying to figure out how to fix this problem since the buildings were constructed, and that the janitors slapped these signs up before conferring with actual station engineers just to make all of us residents feel good.