Waters Elementary School Classes Cancelled Due to Flood

December 13, 2001

Kerry Drennan, Lubbock

Elementary Classes Cancelled Due to Flood

Waters Elementary School is temporarily closed because of a weekend flood. A

pipe broke in the kitchen late Saturday and leaked for the rest of the

weekend. When employees got to work this morning, they found about two

inches of standing water throughout the school.

Classes were cancelled Monday and Tuesday, but kids should be back to class

on Wednesday. Cleanup crews will work non-stop to dry out the school so

classes can get back on track.

We made the call to go ahead and ask parents to take their children home, "

said Assistant Superintendent Anne Graves. " We've got lots of vacuuming

going on of course -- this building is almost totally carpeted, so we've got

to make sure we've got all that water picked up. "

LISD officials said all the carpeting will be torn out because of concerns

about mold.

Parents were notified shortly after dropping their kids off that they needed

to come back to pick them up.

" Well it was a shock when we got here this morning and we just took the kids

to the gym and called all our parents, " said Elissa McLemore, whose

5-year-old daughter was not exactly heartbroken to miss class.

" She wants to go home and watch cartoons, which I'm sure 650 other children

are doing right now, " McLemore said.

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