Students return to Meadowdale Elementary School months after flood damage

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Meadowdale Elementary School, students and staff walked back through the doors of their newly-repaired school Tuesday.

Meadowdale Elementary School in Lynnwood reopened Tuesday, April 9 after being closed for several months due to flooding. Before the first bell, students raced from the parking lot, passing under a big blue sign reading “Welcome Back, Eagles!”hit Western Washington in mid-January. Despite monitoring and preparations in advance of the weather, several water pipes had frozen and burst over Martin Luther King Jr.

But Meadowdale saw some of the worst damage, with 14 of its 22 classrooms affected by the flooding. Schwab said the long-term cleanup involved removing carpet and tile, tearing sheetrock off walls, and removing damp and damaged insulation. “Some additional insulation was put in the ceiling,” Schwab said. “That’s where the pipes were. We wanted to make sure that this didn’t happen again.”

“Our maintenance staff and our custodial staff and contractors that worked on the school, they did an amazing job of getting it ready,” Schwab said. “We were aiming for spring break. And we got there.”“They made it work. It was definitely not what anybody wanted to do. And I think we ended up only needing four days of remote learning before we were able to reopen at Woodway,” Schwab said.

 

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