As many of you have already heard, Valley Regional had a flood last week. While undergoing renovations "something" happened causing one of the main sprinkler lines to break on level 3 sending water through all 3 levels of the hospital. I found the official press release amusing to say the least. It stated that late Tuesday afternoon a sprinkler line broke flooding the hospital with between 1 and 20 000 gallons of water. Okay hold it right there! I mean between 1 and 20 00 gallons?!?!?! They couldn't ball park the figure a little better than that?? No one would expect perfect accuracy in reporting something like that by any means. As any one who has had to clean up an entire carton of milk from the kitchen floor after their five year old has tried to pour their own milk will tell you, liquid when spilt ALWAYS looks like more than it really is. HOWEVER having said that, three fire departments were called and pumper trucks had to be used to pump the water from the hospital. Now I am no expert in floods nor do I claim to be a math wizz but a one gallon flood hardly seems worthy of a pumper truck. A mop, shop vac, and perhaps a fan would do nicely.
I must say though everyone is taking the flood very well. The lobby which had just finished renovations is totally closed as are the areas directly above and below the lobby causing major detours and disruptions in the daily workings of the hospital. With no end to these disruptions in sight I can only hope this sense of team work and happy will continue at least until I go on vacation.
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