Flying at Suck-Factor 12...
Today was a big bowl of suck.
About 10am this morning the library I work in experienced a HUGE flood in the Children's Room. The newly updated, slightly renovated, squeaky cleaned Children's Room. Apparently a pipe or some sort of coil froze and burst and spewed inky black water all over the place.
While we were in the middle of cleaning up this mess, I realized that there were only 3 people upstairs taking care of all the usual business of the day. I said out loud, "I'm going to go back upstairs and see if they need help up there" and I left.
I get upstairs to find one of those people running around looking for anyone to help out because the ceiling had opened up with another burst pipe right over the fiction area. So I go running back downstairs to announce the latest flood and everyone goes running upstairs to watch as the fiction section gets destroyed by water.
They ended up closing the library for most of the day and we all spent hours and hours cleaning and discarding wet books. Thousands of dollars worth of wet books. The day was pretty much a big bowl of suck.
posted by kris @ 7:34 PM
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Bad, Bad Gremlins for making such a mess!!!
OMG! How horrible!
Holy Shit!!
Oh, this is really awful! Joe said he'd heard about a flood at the library, but when we looked at the website last night, we didn't see anything about it, so he thought maybe he'd been wrong.
I wonder if FPL could do a "sponsor a book" campaign to have patrons buy a copy of the titles that were damaged. This is a tough time of the year to hit people up for money, though.
Let me know if there's anything concrete we can do out here in Library Land.
That's horrible! I'm so sorry.
Maybe pimp out to B&N for their overstocked titles after New Years, they get a tax deduction, you get books.
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