Lectures cancelled today.

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.