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There was a fire in my house, three floors straight up from me - dunno what caused it, and if it spread at all. The end result is that we spent two hours sitting around the commonsblock, mostly because the sprinklers had flooded the stairwells and probably all of fifth (I'm on second). My room is okay, although the carpet outside (by the stairwell) has a huge wet patch, and I suspect the girl on fourth in this stack of rooms is probably royally screwed. As is the guy on fifth who started it, if only because we may all gang up and kill him after we sleep. Seriously, I was about to go to bed when the fire alarm went off at midnight; a couple people on my floor were in bed already.
Haaate. So much haaaate.
Haaate. So much haaaate.
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Date: 2006-09-30 02:53 pm (UTC)From:And I re-emphasise the middle-of-winter-snowing part, because as I said, second night at UBC, second night in Canada coming from a country of near-eternal sunshine.
*completely understands the haaaaaaaate*
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Date: 2006-09-30 06:40 pm (UTC)From:Incidently, it seems like all the Australian exchange students come here for Law - dunno _why_, but all of the ones I've met are.
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Date: 2006-09-30 09:45 pm (UTC)From:Oh, memories.
Date: 2006-09-30 10:12 pm (UTC)From:Ah, but then not just my dorm last year, but the entire residental quad (five dorms!) where we were located were kicked out for something like THREE HOURS in the middle of winter, near midnight. Why? There was a gigantic ammonia spill down at the athletic facilities next to us, and we had to be evacuated. We didn't know for hours if we were going to be able to get back into our dorms at ALL that night, or even for the next few days. Many of us, myself included, developed sore throats and coughs from the fumes.
This, surprisingly, did not make me any more tolerant of normal fire drills that only lasted for twenty minures or so. Don't you wake me up, people, unless that building is in flames AROUND ME. Nice to know others are sharing my misery. ::wipes tear:: They grow up so FAST!
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Date: 2006-10-01 12:01 am (UTC)From:Re: Oh, memories.
Date: 2006-10-01 04:55 am (UTC)From:What really kills me, however, was that if I'd KNOWN it was ammonia before I left my room, I would have used my heavy-duty face mask gotten for use with dye vats. But no, I was too dumb to make the funny smell + alarm = chemical spill connection. ^_^;;;