7 December 2009

Flood in the UQ Usability Laboratory area during a refit of ceiling-mounted cameras.

Photos courtesy of Matt Thompson's iPhone.
Titanic quotes courtesy of Matt Thompson.

   
During drilling, a pipe in the ceiling space is breached and suddenly it's raining hot water -- and filling fast.

   
Thomas Andrews: "As she goes down by the head, the water will spill over the tops of the bulkheads at E deck from one
to the next. Back and back. There's no stopping it." ...
Ismay: [incredulously] "But this ship can't sink!"
Thomas Andrews: "She's made of iron, sir! I assure you, she can... and she will. It is a mathematical certainty."
[15 April 1912]

   
Security and plumbing arrive and water mains are turned off, but water seeps under walls into adjacent rooms over
the next few hours.

Cleaners arrive, and a two-day dry-out begins.
Fortunately we sustain no equipment or data damage, and no major structural damage.