New designation: hurricane parent

punnetofberries
Tue, 04 Sep 2012 12:45:47 +0000

Hey- Tulane freshman here. I live in Butler and they told us we have a back up generator, the power will only be down for like 5 min before it kicks back in. Lies. The RAs were lied to and in turn passed it to us- there were never generators. The emergency lights were annoying and useless as all they did was strobe light the halls very slowly for a few hours before turning a creepy, not useful, dim red.

Sleeping in the hall was just the first night. Power was out for about 34 hours, ac for about 56.

Water did run and wasn’t horribly cold but they made people use lower floors’ bathrooms due to drainage.

As far as food- it was crummy. We were fed granted, but I can’t have gluten (and did inform them when signing up for rations). Anything for us allergy kids until we got to go to bruff? nope (but I had stocked up prior so it was ok.) The gluten-free fridge has been running on empty for a 3-4 days now but should be restocked today. Bruff in general was lacking variety (aka food) until around Sat when they got shipments

It wasn’t poorly organized. But the RAs and other personnel stepped up immensely and made it work. They made thousands of sandwiches and cooked dinner and kept everyone calm when they had little to no idea of what was going on either.