Lectures cancelled today.

ReacherCreature

There's a notice on the door of the library saying that due to flood damage all lectures for today (Friday the 20th)

See this post too -

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63099619&postcount=26

Some may have seen this already, no harm to mention it again.

Eliot Rosewater

And while people may be saying wohoo to a day off, just think of all the UCC students like grenache whos houses are getting flooded and their property damaged. Its a terrible situation, and ye all have my sympathy.

ReacherCreature

Eliot Rosewater wrote: »

And while you may be saying wohoo to a day off, just think of all the UCC students like grenache whos houses are getting flooded and their property damaged. Its a terrible situation, and ye all have my sympathy.

If it helps I'm not 'wohoo'ing any day off. I don't want the day off at all.

My sympathies grenache, saw your thread in AH and your posts in the Western Road flooded section.

titan18

Well,I wouldnt have said woohoo to being off.Rather be in college.All my friends seem to be ok,so woohoo to that.

Eliot Rosewater

Wasnt talking about you RC, when I said "you" I meant the person reading.

ReacherCreature

Eliot Rosewater wrote: »

Wasnt talking about you RC, when I said "you" I meant the person reading.

I was wondering but I never posted that in my OP.

KCAccidental

im still working hard in the library... my boss then texts thinking im in bed and wants me to start work at 12.30 instead of 6 :mad:

ReacherCreature

Received this email -

Hi Everyone,

Please check our Facebook for further updates
http://www.facebook.com/CollegeRoadie

SU Hotlines: 021 490 3133, 021 490 2953 or 021 490 3218

TEACHING UPDATE

UCC has taken the decision to cancel ALL lectures today due to the majority
of the lower levels of campus being completely submerged by floodwater.

This includes all Lectures/Practicals/Tutorials/Exams in ALL areas.

If you have an essay/assignment due today please contact your
lecturer/department and email it in to them if necessary to be on the safe
side.

Students are advised NOT to travel into UCC.

STUDENT ACCOMMODATION UPDATE

Students Living in Student Accomm are advised to stay put until further
advised.

Any students living in student accomm looking for an update/help please call
0214903133 or 0214902953 - please be advised that the lines will be very
busy so keep trying.

Best Wishes

Ian Power

Deputy President
UCC Students' Union

EDIT: Was sent a couple of hours ago, time says 09:09.

J2D2

Yup, nothing happening today. There's going to be chaos around college for the next week, what with the strike possibly affecting things tuesday and all the affected lectures/labs and whatnot from the floods... will be a bizarre week.

KCAccidental

[FONT=Verdana, Helvetica, Arial]Lectures at UCC will be postponed from Monday next (November 23rd 2009) due to flood damage in a number of key buildings. Classes will resume as normal on Monday (November 30th 2009).[/FONT]

just got this from another forum. i'd take with a pinch of salt though.

thebigcheese22

ALL LECTURES CANCELLED TIL NOVEMBER 30TH. Breaking news... :eek:

EDIT: Damn you for getting in a minute ahead of me! It is true, straight from a friend who's helping out with the relief and from someone in the SU

KCAccidental

yeah the info i got was from someone working in UCC. study week. woohoo i really needed it :P

Jay P

Lectures at University College Cork will be postponed from Monday 23 November until 30 November 23rd 2009 due to flood damage in a number of key buildings

Courtesy of RTE website

I don't know how true it is though, I didn't get any email about it, and there's nothing on the UCC website.

samf

Its true, in the SU office now and its confirmed, and college are currently drafting an email to all students.

ReacherCreature

From the UCC.ie website:

http://www.ucc.ie/en/flood/

Orizio

From UCC itself:

Update: Lectures at UCC will be postponed from Monday next (November 23rd 2009) due to flood damage in a number of key buildings. Classes will resume as normal on Monday (November 30th 2009).

KCAccidental

http://www.ucc.ie/en/flood/

Nova_era

Just had a text from UCC informing about the closure until November 30th. Fairplay to how organised they appear to be, they obviously had a contingency plan in the case of something like this flooding happening.

Papa_Lazarou

The readin week that we usualy had off is now going to be used to make up for the lectures missed.

Jay P

Oh joy, an extra week in college :rolleyes:

Orizio

Jay P wrote: »

Oh joy, an extra week in college :rolleyes:

I would have been busy writing essays that week anyway. Hopefully, all my essays will get pushed back a week, which will be fantastic.

Jay P

Orizio wrote: »

I would have been busy writing essays that week anyway. Hopefully, all my essays will get pushed back a week, which will be fantastic.

I would have been busy making some badly needed cash. But sure, how bad?! I'm heading to Limerick for a night out this week. Living the dream this week!

Ricky91t

Western gate building!

Jay P

:eek:
That lovely building. Such a shame. I heard it's going to take three months to fix it up. I don't know how true that is though, I haven't heard any official sources mention a timescale. I'd say there's a lot of damage done though, the computers on the ground floor are practically on the floor.

Aodan83

^nice pic. Heard the servers are all as good as gone in the WGB. Bad times like.
All project deadlines put back to the 27th. Which is great, only I have a project which is already due the 27th. This extension is completely useless to me.

thebigcheese22

Aodan83 wrote: »

^nice pic. Heard the servers are all as good as gone in the WGB. Bad times like.
All project deadlines put back to the 27th. Which is great, only I have a project which is already due the 27th. This extension is completely useless to me.

Yeah but you have a week off college to do it now like.

I'd like to congratulate the SU in the job they've done. I know its not over yet but they have been up all night (literally) looking after students who were flooded and sorting out accomodation for them. Fair play to all the people involved.

deRanged

Aodan83 wrote: »

^nice pic. Heard the servers are all as good as gone in the WGB.

the servers are on the 2nd floor, so they should be physically ok.
the power for the building comes in through the basement, which is not ok.

the lab machines on the ground floor ? I don't know.

if the ground floor was totally flooded, and it looks like it was, they'll have to gut the floor and re-fit it.

captainspeckle

this is terrible. i wonder how the lecture theatres which step down are doing? (G.05 comes to mind)

The damage caused to the whole building must be emmense.

there was a horrible eerie vibe around UCC and the surrounding area in general today... it was awful. i really hope that this damage can be repaired soon, and that student can move back into apartments soon so we can have some sort of normality back.

deRanged

I just heard that there was 3 inches of water through the ground floor, and the lab machines are 5 inches off the floor, so maybe they'll survive, depending how the rest of the weekend goes.
I imagine that huge lecture theatre on the ground floor of the WGB (is that G.05?) is a lake.

rebel girl 15

deRanged wrote: »

I just heard that there was 3 inches of water through the ground floor, and the lab machines are 5 inches off the floor, so maybe they'll survive, depending how the rest of the weekend goes.
I imagine that huge lecture theatre on the ground floor of the WGB (is that G.05?) is a lake.

Heard that the basement and ground floor will have to be completely rewired.

Judging by the photo above, I'd say there was more than three inches TBH!

Its gonna be some clean up operation, and will take the week. Mardyke is ruined, gonna be closed for a month. Hall will be longer

Ricky91t

rebel girl 15 wrote: »

Heard that the basement and ground floor will have to be completely rewired.

Judging by the photo above, I'd say there was more than three inches TBH!

Its gonna be some clean up operation, and will take the week. Mardyke is ruined, gonna be closed for a month. Hall will be longer

The Mardyke gym?!

rebel girl 15

Ricky91t wrote: »

The Mardyke gym?!

Yeah, there are some photos here. Talking to a guy I know who works there, says the place is destroyed - furniture was floating around the reception, the floor of the hall is ruined, could take a couple of months to fix (was floating as well!). It'll be closed for about a month, floodwater was up to the fifth step of the stairs at the height of the flood, some staff got trapped in there last night!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63108767&postcount=86

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63105411&postcount=77

Ricky91t

rebel girl 15 wrote: »

Yeah, there are some photos here. Talking to a guy I know who works there, says the place is destroyed - furniture was floating around the reception, the floor of the hall is ruined, could take a couple of months to fix (was floating as well!). It'll be closed for about a month, floodwater was up to the fifth step of the stairs at the height of the flood, some staff got trapped in there last night!

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63108767&postcount=86

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63105411&postcount=77

I knew there was water in there but didn't think It would take a month to sort it!

That's a month off our "free" subscription...

rebel girl 15

Ricky91t wrote: »

I knew there was water in there but didn't think It would take a month to sort it!

That's a month off our "free" subscription...

I'm presuming there was a lot of damage to the biometric system, it takes quite a while to empty the pool, clean the whole place down, because there will be sludge and slime left in there and get new equipment in if it was damaged. I'd safely bet there was a lot of tile damage as well that could take a while to fix.

They won't be able to get in there till about next week, what with there being more floods to come, and it was still under a couple of feet of water despite the tide being out as well. It was definately one of the worst hit areas

J2D2

Our Judo clubs equipment is most likely ruined too as it was in the main hall God knows if the insurance will cover any damage or replacements.

rebel girl 15

J2D2 wrote: »

Our Judo clubs equipment is most likely ruined too as it was in the main hall God knows if the insurance will cover any damage or replacements.

I was just thinking that about the gear. There is a load of equipment in the main press in hall 3 - probably depends on the insurance that the Mardyke has TBH! I'm wondering if they got any of the gym equipment upstairs before the flood, since there were staff trapped inside, maybe that was what they were trying to do.

J2D2

Aye, was thinking that myself. We have quite a lot of mats and they aren't cheap =\ So hopefully most of them will be ok. Not the most pressing of matters I know in light of everything else of course but I hope we'll be able to get the club going again.

Aodan83

thebigcheese22 wrote: »

Yeah but you have a week off college to do it now like.

Dude, you've known me for what, 7/ 8 years? Do you honestly think that will make any difference? Hear the SU have been workin hard alright. Fair play to 'em indeed.
Was down by the Mardyke this morning. Not at all surprised the gym's in bits. Whats the deal with the astro pitch? If that and the hall have to be re-done, it's gonna be ridiculously expensive.