Where There's Water, There's Fire
Wow. Just got off the phone with my family. My brother answered and said that they had big news that they were dealing with all weekend. It involved my sister, and though she's all right, they have had quite the situation.
As a piece of background, during the Mashour family wedding this past summer, our entire hotel was evacuated just as part of my family was showing up due to an emergency fire alarm. We would later find out that the situation was caused by a soon to be bride hanging the wedding dress that she would be wearing the next day on the emergency fire sprinklers in her room. Why someone would do such a thing, I will never know. But needless to say, the sprinklers were activated, destroying her dress and the entire room in one fell swoop.
Translate that to my sister's dorm. Her roommate thought it might be a good idea to hang her Valentine's day dress on their sprinklers. My sister had a friend visiting for the weekend from Chicago, and five minutes after they arrived to the room and were planning how to spend their day, an explosion of black water erupted from said sprinkler. My sister and her friends evacuated with the hundreds of other students living in the dorm: looking back only to see a black puddle of water emerging from her room.
The University bent over backwards, saying that they would pay for the hotel and replacement of all the goods in the room, that is, until they discovered that the entire situation was caused by one of the roommate's stupidity, at which point, they commented that my sister and her roommate would "sure be unpopular after this" and went on their way.
Going back into the room was like a war zone, according to my sister and my parents, who came up to Ann Arbor to help sort through the damage. Thousands of dollars of damage, in fact. Cell phone, laptop, ipod, all of the clothes and possessions in the room were destroyed, as well as six other rooms next to and below their room. True, nobody got hurt, but living in Michigan does not exactly prepare us to sift through monsoon water damage, and something like this is not only a hassle, but hard to deal with. I couldn't even handle my purse getting stolen, I don't know how my sis will handle something like this.
Which just goes to show, a little common sense will go a long way.
As a piece of background, during the Mashour family wedding this past summer, our entire hotel was evacuated just as part of my family was showing up due to an emergency fire alarm. We would later find out that the situation was caused by a soon to be bride hanging the wedding dress that she would be wearing the next day on the emergency fire sprinklers in her room. Why someone would do such a thing, I will never know. But needless to say, the sprinklers were activated, destroying her dress and the entire room in one fell swoop.
Translate that to my sister's dorm. Her roommate thought it might be a good idea to hang her Valentine's day dress on their sprinklers. My sister had a friend visiting for the weekend from Chicago, and five minutes after they arrived to the room and were planning how to spend their day, an explosion of black water erupted from said sprinkler. My sister and her friends evacuated with the hundreds of other students living in the dorm: looking back only to see a black puddle of water emerging from her room.
The University bent over backwards, saying that they would pay for the hotel and replacement of all the goods in the room, that is, until they discovered that the entire situation was caused by one of the roommate's stupidity, at which point, they commented that my sister and her roommate would "sure be unpopular after this" and went on their way.
Going back into the room was like a war zone, according to my sister and my parents, who came up to Ann Arbor to help sort through the damage. Thousands of dollars of damage, in fact. Cell phone, laptop, ipod, all of the clothes and possessions in the room were destroyed, as well as six other rooms next to and below their room. True, nobody got hurt, but living in Michigan does not exactly prepare us to sift through monsoon water damage, and something like this is not only a hassle, but hard to deal with. I couldn't even handle my purse getting stolen, I don't know how my sis will handle something like this.
Which just goes to show, a little common sense will go a long way.