If you were one of the students having trouble getting to your classes on  December 5th, you saw that the library, career center, and front office were all temporarily closed. 
    This frustration was a result of the plummeting cold temperatures taking a toll on our building. Students with classes near the library were greeted with yellow caution tape that morning due to a pipe freezing over on the roof.  
    Janitor, Debbie Ball, was in the midst of the crew fixing this problem.
According to Ball, “one of the coils attached to a heating unit on the roof completely froze over. The pipes started leaking, and since the pipe that’s supposed to drain that water onto the roof froze, it caused the water to be backed up.”
Naturally, if water has nowhere to run, it will soak through the surface-that being our roof, in this case.
    Although it was a definite problem during that school day, Ball reassures us that the leak will not affect students any more than it already has.
“    We’ve already fixed the problem, all we have to do is repaint the damaged areas and finish cleaning the carpets,” ball said.
    When asked whether or not this problem had the potential of shutting down the school, Ball replied that “the only reason that would happen would be if it were to reoccur over one of the classroom wings.”
Since the leak we encountered only affected the library and main office areas, it didn’t cause a disruptance to any classrooms (with the exception of one career center class that was moved inside the library).
     To be clear, this problem has been confirmed to have been brought on by the increasingly cold weather we’ve been fighting. Although staff and repair crews have their fingers crossed in hopes that this won’t be a re-occurring problem, Ball says that there is “absolutely” potential for it to happen again. 
    “We can’t control the weather,” says Ball. But students, don’t get your hopes up for a day off because of leaking pipes.