Thursday, September 24, 2009

Leaky windows

Leaky windows are not fun, especially when it just keeps leaking. This is what happened,
I was asleep on my futon in my dorm room, which is on the eighth floor of lafolette. My roomie was on her x-box playing some game, when all of the sudden the room gets noticeably darker. The wind begins to blow, and that's when the rain started. One minute is was hot and humid, not raining, and the next minute it's like we have a hurricane going on outside our window. The rain is coming down at an angle, and hitting our side of the building. Meanwhile, i'm still asleep on the couch and Brittany is still on her xbox. She looks up, notices the hurricane and runs over to shut the open window. (My desk is in front of the window, I have my printer and my computer on it. Thankfully, only the back of my printer got a little wet.) She yelled my name when she ran over to the window, so that's what I got to wake up to; a hurricane and the possibility that my computer got rained on.
Once the window was shut, Brittany grabbed a towel to dry up the rain that had come in before the window was shut. That's when we noticed that it was still coming in, even though the window was closed. We completely soaked one of Brittany's large bath towels, I had a smaller one in my hand that I probably rang out in the trash can four times. This was a serious amount of water, and I wasn't at all happy.
In the end, we grabbed another dry towel and pushed it down in the window seal to soak up any more water that decided to come in. Hopefully the "Fix my room," come to fix our room soon.

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