Yale Dorms, Colleges Lost Power, Basements Flooded: Report

New Haven CT

02 September, 2021

8:53 AM

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NEW HAVEN, CT — As a result of the torrential rains late Wednesday into early Thursday, the Yale Daily News reported that all of Yale University's residential colleges, as well as all of Old Campus, lost power and that most "college basements flooded." Tweets from Yale Daily News editor-in-chief Mackenzie Hawkins illustrate the blackouts and flooding across campus. Among many striking things about tonight's storm: Yale took two hours to send any campus-wide alert — and that alert only referenced "a number of university buildings."By that time @yaledailynews had confirmed blackouts in all residential colleges and flooding in most.— Mackenzie Hawkins (@mackhawk) September" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://twitter.com/mackhawk/s... 2, 2021 The paper reported that the University did not send out alerts to students until around 1:30 a.m., some two hours after flooding was first reported and around 90 minutes after many dorms lost power. The alert advised residential students, who'd just moved in, that they should stay in their dorms and residences "unless flooding forced them to relocate." Read the full Yale Daily News story, which includes video, here.