Another flood?

Meteorologists are warning of more floods over the next few weeks. The frightening thing is that it's not even raining, the tide is just getting so high. Eek. Last year's floods caused millions of euro of damage so here's hoping we're better prepared. On the other hand, there is a huge Facebook party planned, UCC Flood Week 2: Flood Harder, so at least I'll have a vibrant social life. Here are some of the photos of last year's disaster near where I live. The last picture is my friend's front garden under 5 feet of water. Scary stuff.

College - the new maths building

UCC Maths

The new UCC maths building.... under water. The path in the middle is a bridge over a (normally) tiny stream. Wow.

Flood and Ball Update

It rained again last night! Fortunately it wasn't too heavy but there's just so much pressure on resources as it is. College has officially closed for the week as the damage is quite bad, apparently the computer science block has been ruined and the cancer research center equipment is in bits. All of it new. :-(

The scary thing about this is that I live only 2 mins walk from all these areas and escaped COMPLETELY! My lovely friend LJ from SOS has moved in with me as her student accomm has been closed down and plenty more students from abroad are homeless so the Students' Union is calling for anyone to offer a spare room if they can.

On the good side, there have been no reported fatalities and everyone is banding together to help out. The Ball went ahead last night as well and was AMAAAAZING! Extremely hungover so that's always a good sign ;-) Didn't even have to wear wellies with my tux so I'm delira!!

Saying that, my tux jacket was taken so I'm hoping it gets returned...sent this email around to the class this morning..(Note I'm 6'6 and my jacket will fit very few people..RIDICULOUS!)

Jacket feeling a bit on the long side?

Find a surprise bottle of vodka in the inside pocket? (Classy I know)

Perhaps a little card saying "Please return if lost as my Mom will kill me"?

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you may have taken mine!

In true Corkonian style though, I'm sure it'll be graaaand.