Freshman Kameron Teague has probably heard all about the dangers associated with your first year of college, but she may not have thought dorm flooding was one of them.
Teague and nearly 50 other students were placed at a nearby Holiday Inn after their dorms flooded at the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, according to Channel 2 Action News.
The students will be staying there for the next two to three weeks while the university figures out what led to the flooding.
“University police are continuing to investigate, but what we have found is a pressure valve on the sprinkler system was dislodged,” university spokesman Gary Leftwich told Channel 2. “We don’t know whether that was intentional or not.”
Leftwich told Channel 2 that housing staff worked over the weekend to relocate students. The university is paying the hotel costs and providing transportation to and from campus.
Teague was sleeping when he told his roommate he “heard something.”
“He went and looked and he came back and got me,” Teague told the station. “I stepped outside and I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing.”
Teague was able to get his things out and into the hotel.
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