I don't think much of anything happened on campus.
Heck, I had a class that AM and didn't know anything about it til about 9:00
Pretty much seeing a repeat right now. Lied, RCA, Athletic complex.
Sandbagging at Hilton
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I don't think much of anything happened on campus.
Heck, I had a class that AM and didn't know anything about it til about 9:00
Pretty much seeing a repeat right now. Lied, RCA, Athletic complex.
Did some quick calculations. If we're talking 5 feet of water, that's about 2.1 billion pounds of water on the levy at the Iowa State Center alone. And I don't think the state would be happy with a levy that covers JTS and Hilton but ignores the dorms, where people live. Bottom line, it would cost a Ton of money to build a levy. Although with the frequency that this has happened, it might be a good project to give to the civil engineering seniors to try to figure out some low cost options to prevent any future flooding.
I know the cost of a floor, but how many times do you hear a building like Hilton getting flooded like that with damages not over a million? You've got locker rooms probably ruined, electrical and a lot of stuff I probably don't even know about.
Ugh. I was hoping all the renos they did for the VB offices wouldn't be affected (don't remember what level they're on). Sounds like Coach J-L is trying to save what she can per BF twitter. :sad:
Regardless, you'd need to bag a road or install some sort of gate.
Lincoln Way, S 4th and 6th are every bit the issue the entrances to lots are, I imagine.
I believe all the offices and the new lounges are up on the concourse where the old basketball offices were (I think). Those are probably ok.
Safe to say all the equipment and lockerrooms down low are trashed.
WOW! That is MAJOR! This looks worse than 93 even.
The water is deep enough that virtually all of your arena circle seats are damaged. The main mechanical room (off the NW corner of the floor) is underwater....that will be huge. All storage rooms on the ground level at least 6 feet of water in them. That will mean curtains, wrestling mats, dry goods will all be damaged. All the locker rooms will have at least 6 feet of water in them.
Not good. I assume the University has insurance for this.
I used to work at the Iowa State Center. Scheman will have a major problem. The whole mechanical room and electrical vault will be under water there, unless they managed to keep it out by some miracle. Stephens and Fisher are probably fine, they are on higher ground....but there could be some problems with their mechanical rooms too. Sad to see this again.
I know......it all depends on how deep the water is, and how soon someone reacted to protect the building. If the water were only a few inches deep and the flloor was floating, there would not be much damage to the building, but there could be a lot to the basketball floor.
Having seen the video inside Hilton now, it is obvious now that the damage to the floor will likely be the least of their problems. Depending on what they may have been able to do, all of the locker rooms, storage rooms, and mechanical rooms appear to be flooded. Hopefully ISU has insurance to cover it.
If it is still like it was in 1993, ISU is self-insured.
Are there pumps of any kind in Hilton? Perhaps you can't keep the water out, but at least keep the levels to a minimum...
Accoding to Coach Steyer's tweet 10 mins ago, Hilton is 7 feet under water
I think it's more accurate to say that Hilton is now a 7' swimming pool. :wink:
We may have to install those water tight doors like you see on boats.
This will have a huge impact on the volleyball season, will be interested to see/hear more reports and what kind of time table it will take to complete the repairs.
There are drains in the floor of Hilton.......used to drain the ice after it was down, but obviously those are going to be of no use now.....since no doubt the storm sewers are full and probably backing up into the building already. I wonder if the sanitary sewers have backed up into yet? That will make the problem even worse.
You could use sump pumps to pump the water out, but that may be useless if the water is still coming in. Once the storm sewers are open again, it will not be terribly difficult to get the water out.
Actually it takes a crew of around 15-17 (if I remember correctly) between 2 and 2.5 hours to put in the floor. Taking it out would use the same crew and be almost the same time. That is what I remember from almost 20 years ago when I was filling those calls. They still would have had to use additional time and labor to move it out of the floor level up to the concourse to keep it safe. The carts of floor would have to go outside to make it to the concourse level as the elevators wouldn't handle that size cart (at least they didn't back then). So if the top of the ramp was already wet, that ship would have already sailed if you'll pardon the pun.
However, if they thought their labor was best served keeping the water out and they thought they were going to accomplish that, they would have used the labor there rather than taking out the floor.
I don't know what people are worried about. We're Iowa State. We have plenty of money to pay for all of the damages...We just have to ask another big time donor to pony up...wait...That's Oklahoma State. Crap.
That was my thought. Season's sposed to start in 10 days for them. Im guessing theres no way theyre gonna be ready for it.