Posted on 02/02/2006 4:31:43 PM PST by cmsgop
2 UW Buildings Evacuated
February 2, 2006
By KOMO Staff & News Services
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SEATTLE - Two buildings on the University of Washington campus were evacuated Thursday afternoon after the second floor of Thomson Hall buckled, university spokesman Bob Roseth said.
As many as 200 people were in Thomson Hall at the time of the incident, which was reported to campus police at about 1:53 p.m. No injuries were reported.
The Communications Building next door was evacuated as well for a short time as a precaution, said university spokesman Vince Stricherz.
Roseth said it was not immediately known why the structure moved.
People in Thomson Hall at the center of campus told campus police they felt the building shift and then tiles on the second floor popped loose, Stricherz said. Evacuees had some trouble with the doors, he added.
"Somewhere on second floor, the floor buckled," Roseth said minutes after the building was evacuated.
Thomson Hall, which was built in 1948, houses the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Roseth described it as a collegiate gothic building, with four stories above the ground, plus a basement.
No one was allowed back into the building until university structural engineers could investigate and decide whether it was safe, Roseth said.
Comments Please
Let the Ted Kennedy jokes begin!
Thomson Hall was a neat old building not far off montlake.
More Accurately, let the LEFT Coast Jokes Begin!!!!:-)
It is Washington You Know..........
Could it of been all the BS being spouted there?
Old growth wood giving it up..
Water? Ground saturation? We only had about 57,520 inches of rain in January.
Nah, it was just Dick and Bruce going at it in the stalls on the second floor of Thomson. Happens every week.
Colleges have a lot of that quality 1960s architecture.
: Reminds me of a joke Bill Cosby used to do when he came to Seattle. He used to say that one day, the sun appeared in Seattle and the inhabitants said "Why God? What have we done?"
I had an English Lit class in Thompson Hall one summer....
I didn't know you were a Huskie...
"Roseth said it was not immediately known why the structure moved."
Frost-backs tunneling into America?
There was a Ray Bradbury story like that, about folks who live on Venus, and only once every twenty years or so, the Sun comes out.
A little girl who all her short life wants to see the sun is struck blind the day before...
I forget the ending.
Husky! Huskie would be like a Muskie or a Russkie! LOL
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