One thing I suggested here yesterday that I am pretty sure turns out to be false: the flood water incident probably wasn’t sewage, which is what I had originally heard. That’s the good news. The bad news is it looks pretty bad.
After the continued part, I include VP for Communication Walter Kraft’s full email he sent around earlier today. Right after I received that message, I went up to my office and took a look around and a few pictures. Here’s a link to the whole set of photos if you want to see it.
First off, it’s never a good sign to see a “catastrophic cleaning” truck parked out front. But on the plus-side, I was expecting some sort of sewage/poo-like smell and I didn’t get that. I didn’t get any kind of wet/mildewy smell either. So that’s all good.
But it looks like the water damage was pretty extensive. Half of the second floor was closed off, the rest rooms on the first floor were roped off, and the writing center is completely closed. And it looks like it might be closed for a while. This picture (which someone else took– this was all roped off from me) is the ceiling on the floor, which is not where it belongs. Hard to say when that is going to be open again.
I also think the last sentence of Kraft’s release is kind of telling here: ”The cause of the water leak, which originated in a ceiling sprinkler head in the men’s bathroom on the second floor, remains under investigation.” Those are some interesting lines to read between.
From Annarbor.com comes 
