Our little college will be hosting an event for high schools to build little robots and compete with them. The competition will be later this fall. Today, the teams came to learn about the competition and pick up the kits for building the robots, and I volunteered to assist with registration and other mundane tasks. But the day started off anything but mundane. We were using the auditorium that is used for theater productions, concerts, and such. It is old, but nice. I arrived at 8:30 (the kids were due to show up at 9:00). One of the other faculty volunteers heard water rushing and found something of a waterfall coming down backstage. At about 8:55, the fire alarm sounded, and strobe lights flashed, and we all left the building. The appropriate people came, and found that the theater department's costume area had a washing machine that some pea-brained person had installed on the top floor of the building, and it had been stuck on the "fill" cycle for something like 12 hours. The water eventually shorted out some alarm system, hence the fire alarm. They did manage to shut off the alarm, but the strobe lights flashed till about 12:00 noon. I don't know what will be done about the water.
The good news is that we were able to complete the planned events with no problem.
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