This morning the computer labs were very hot, so the lab manager went to open the sliding glass doors - and discovered one lab doing a Plett imitation. Water was pouring out of the ceiling, dripping on to the computers below, and pooling in the carpets. Monitors were covered in a thick, sticky film, and suspicious brown pools lurched off the edge of the desks in Niagaroid glory, splashing into the crocodile breeding grounds below.
At first, it was suspected that "turning off the aircon" did not include turning off the heating, which Maintenance sought to remedy. They discovered, however, that that was not the cause - instead, it was a leaking toilet on level 4.
In fact, the sewage pipes were completely blocked, and the leak was the result of the pressure build up. Hence, no doubt, the suspicious colour. The planned solution was to blast the pipes open by flushing the system with more pressure.
The resulting tidal wave might sweep away most of Upper Campus, but assuming enough of Leslie is left standing to host the Grad functions, I'd recommend a slight modification to this year's Grad ceremony: after capping the graduants, the student health staff inject them in the arm with a typhoid prevention shot. Parents will be issued, together with their tickets, a voucher for inocculation at their nearest public health facility.
And now, given that my office is lower-lying than the Leslie Building, I am heading for higher ground until the tsunami is past....