Omgz we lost structural integrity!

[silent ben]

I once slept right through a fire alarm at my halls of residence (we had lots of false alarms). There was a bell in each room which was loud enough to hurt your ears, so god knows how I did it.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess you were drunk

[Kezzer]

It's pretty dodgy I agree, but nearly all the strength in a modern tall building is in the central core columns. The walls then basically just hang off that, also supported by the external walls.

It's an extremely cheaply made building, everything is made out of plasterboard hence why everything fell apart when water touched it

[noah]

sweet mate, something to break the monotony of revision and coursework eh!

[Rave]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess you were drunk

Pretty sure I wasn't although I had gone to bed at about 4am. I'm half deaf in one ear, and I was probably sleeping on the other one. I was still pretty amazed though, the bells were bloody loud. I was on the ground floor anyway, so could easily have hopped out the window if the building actually had been on fire.

[Allen]

I was on the ground floor anyway, so could easily have hopped out the window if the building actually had been on fire.

Unless the building had crumbled down around you, or worse, on top of you!

I'm a really heavy sleeper, I can sleep through storms, but for some reason I always wake up for alarms, telephones and people knocking on my door... weird!

[Atomic]

The uni has been mega screwed over though. They've lost tens of thousands of pounds just on the students alone let alone all the repair work etc.

I guess its an old building then, all the new residences at work are covered by a 10 year guarantee on all the work.

[Tifosi]

"floors 8 to 14 were allowed back in to stay"

floor 4 and down were wrecked and structurally unsafe yet floors above were allowed back in? sounds like jenga to me.

[EvilMunky]

20 quid????? i woulda charged them that to get me out of bed

[Stewart]

KeZZeR - Your life seems life one big adventure!

With magical happenings!

[Kezzer]

I guess its an old building then, all the new residences at work are covered by a 10 year guarantee on all the work.

It's 3 years old hence why i said "modern"

[Atomic]

Maybe covered by the buildings insurance and not cost the uni thousands then.

[shiato storm]

only £20 for a day's sitting around in Pj's?...

[Steve]

floor 4 and down were wrecked and structurally unsafe yet floors above were allowed back in? sounds like jenga to me.

Fantastic!

[Norky]

We had a fire alarm today at school. The first one went off just before last period was about to begin, there was a mahoosive crush in one of the corridors and someone got their head mooshed against the fire alarm, setting it off, followed by a stampede. We all stood around having a titter for about 30 minutes before being told to go back in. On the way back in someone just decided to give another fire alarm a quick punch, so we all did an about turn and waited the rest of the day off

[tiggerai]

were you in trafalgar halls?

[Kezzer]

Yup