Underground Watertown School Mystery South of Clintonville
April 1st, 2012 by admin
MAP: http://zeemaps.com/338668 Just south of, you guessed it, Clintonville. I almost completely missed this story o.o Glad i came across it. I’m working on a little map of WI Geological phenomena over the past two weeks, includes 4 towns so far. **UPDATE: hope you checked out mah mapz0r :D
“WATERTOWN, Wis. — A Watertown school will reopen Wednesday after some exploding tiles forced classes to be canceled Tuesday.
Tiles in the cafeteria started to buckle and explode Monday at St. Henry’s Catholic School.
“And I looked at the tiles on the floor. (They) were raising up and flying across the kitchen floor. So, we got out of the cafeteria and told the kids to go up to their classrooms. Eventually, they were evacuated,” St. Henry’s Cooking Manager Diane Dannenberg said. “It looked like the movie ‘Tremors’ where something was tunneling underneath the floor.”
Some described exploding, but the floor definitely buckled.
The city’s building inspector said the part of the building affected was built in 1952. Investigators are looking at all sorts of possibilities to explain why these tiles lifted off the ground.
After 20 years as the city’s building inspector, Joe Heimsch said he was baffled after first looking at this basement.
“My hope is it’s some kind of sanitary line that was improperly abandoned, and it could have came up, and that would have caused the same type of effect,” Heimsch said. “The worst-case scenario is actual foundation movement. I’m hoping that’s not the case.”
Heimsch told 12 News Tuesday afternoon that there was nothing life-threatening or dangerous at the school, but lunches will definitely be affected, regardless of the buckling’s cause.
“If they return back, they’re going to be bringing bagged lunches. I’m afraid this kitchen will probably be down the rest of the year,” Heimsch said.
Hot lunches for St. Bernard Catholic School in Watertown are also affected.
Students will not have to make up the missed time because they didn’t have any snow days this year.”
source: http://www.wisn.com/r/30770975/detail.html
Wow now I really don’t know what to think.
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