The gathering place for LU alumni to wax nostalgic about their glory days and tell current students how easy they have it. Old hags & bright-eyed and bushytailed recent grads both welcome.

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By Knucklehead
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#70980
Early '88! Whole campus went dark for hours. I was in dorm 6. Some guys lit a bonfire in some trash outside the dorm and we all stood around singing "Kum Buy Ya" (SP?)
We ran all over campus.
Those were the days. :lol:
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By Sly Fox
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#70988
I vaguely recall it. But I was living off campus at the time.
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By BJWilliams
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#70998
We had a major power outage in 2004 as well. the entire main campus lost power after a pole got knocked out. I think some also lost water that day too. We had everything for the basketball game that night (against Winthrop) but they canceled classes the rest of the day after that one. I remember because I lived on East and they had power and water and all the main campus kids let the east campus kids hear it in convo the next day. I think ATrain can verify the situation for me
By thepostman
#71025
we didn't get power back til during the basketball game...they were running the Vines Center on generators til about halfway through if i remember right
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By Fumblerooskies
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#71050
I can top that...
...who can remember the 4.5 earthquake felt on campus back in 03 or 04?
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By PAmedic
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#71062
Knucklehead wrote:Early '88! Whole campus went dark for hours. I was in dorm 6. Some guys lit a bonfire in some trash outside the dorm and we all stood around singing "Kum Buy Ya" (SP?)
We ran all over campus.
Those were the days. :lol:
lived it.

Dorm 12, baby.
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By PAmedic
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#71064
remember no trash pickup for a week or so?

"some people" took matters into their own hands and lit the big piles of it on fire.

regularly.

until security (now LUPD) staked out our dorm, hiding in the dark, and jumped them in the act.

killjoys.
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By jcmanson
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#71114
I remember the small earthquake and remember thinking to myself was that an earthquake. When I saw the news later that it was, I was shocked!

I also remember the blackout where East didn't pay their bill but the main campus did! At least that was the joke going around. I think a tractor trailor hit a transformer or something on Wards Rd. I was so pumped for the game that night, but it didn't seem right after that.
By Libertine
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#71130
jcmanson wrote:I remember the small earthquake and remember thinking to myself was that an earthquake. When I saw the news later that it was, I was shocked!
I remember the "Quake". Growing up in Charleston, I've experienced many "tiny quakes" (there's a fault line there, trust me) and I never expected to sit through one in Lynchburg. Had much the same reaction.
I also remember the blackout where East didn't pay their bill but the main campus did! At least that was the joke going around. I think a tractor trailor hit a transformer or something on Wards Rd. I was so pumped for the game that night, but it didn't seem right after that.
That was the construction crew putting up the Bob Evans. They knocked down one of the poles that run by the railroad tracks. AEP actually had to build a road to get up to the line and fix it.
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By BJWilliams
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#71133
thepostman wrote:we didn't get power back til during the basketball game...they were running the Vines Center on generators til about halfway through if i remember right
Oh yeah I remember that...I think I saw a lot more of people walking in groups as it got to be around nightfall that day
By TIMSCAR20
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#71207
The 2004 Blackout was actually 2005. I called the Winthrop game in 04 but Duke Edsall wouldn't delay the game long enough for us to get our power back in the booth for the 05 game so Ray Jones and I sat at Courtside in our normal seats with no headsets or monitors and wondered what we would be saying if we were actually on national television. It was very surreal. WU knocked us around pretty good that night too as I recall.
By thepostman
#71214
haha good find SJ....freaking east campus
By thepostman
#71222
And just for memories sake....just this picture out....this is the Big South Championship game....you can't see me that well since that kid in front of me leaned in...but this was my spot every game that season....

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The original picture can be found here

https://www.liberty.edu/media/1540/fsn_ ... owd058.jpg
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By jcmanson
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#71272
thepostman wrote:And just for memories sake....just this picture out....this is the Big South Championship game....you can't see me that well since that kid in front of me leaned in...but this was my spot every game that season....

Image

The original picture can be found here

https://www.liberty.edu/media/1540/fsn_ ... owd058.jpg
Dude, that kid in front of you is me! :lol: I'm the one with the redshirt. That was my seat for 4 years! Maybe I know you :o
By thepostman
#71381
wow...thats funny man...I was there all of that season...then I got a job and wasn't at quite as many games the following year and when i did go i was just in the back....

I didn't know you...I don't think we ever talked, but I do remember seeing you every single game....I got in trouble a few times for yelling the refs suck.........
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By jcmanson
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#71394
I remember there were a bunch of guys that would say suck, and they always got called out for it.
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By BJWilliams
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#71407
One thing I remember from the blackout is some girls I knew were walking over by the post office and the old Light Medical building and some guys jumped em and scared them half to death. They weren't too amused by it even though the guys meant well
By thepostman
#71414
jcmanson wrote:I remember there were a bunch of guys that would say suck, and they always got called out for it.
and one of them would've been me....it was my first year and it was the first time in my life someone said sucks was considered a bad word...not cursing...just something you should not say often....I had never heard this before in my entire life....so I was confused and just went on with my life....and to be honest I am still confused to why it is considered "bad"....and no, I do not want to hear the excuses...I have heard them all

Sophmore year I had anal RA's and I got reps after he heard me say it...I appealed them and they did not get overthrown...this is when I started hanging out in the back for the games...and I am sure this still plays a factor in the clamness of the student section
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By El Scorcho
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#71447
thepostman wrote:...and to be honest I am still confused to why it is considered "bad"....and no, I do not want to hear the excuses...I have heard them all
Well then I guess you'll always just be perplexed by that one. I wouldn't let on that you have a hard time understanding it if you don't want anyone to try to explain it to you.
By thepostman
#71469
haha...ok scorch...thanks....I wasn't trying to start anything.....I get your point...but dude chill....

People have their opinions and I am fine with that....

lets smile... :lol:
By jack_sparrow81
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#72101
yeh I remember the earthquake, It was in the afternoon. It felt like a shuttle was going off, so I didn't pay much attention to it.
By Libertine
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#72487
jack_sparrow81 wrote:yeh I remember the earthquake, It was in the afternoon. It felt like a shuttle was going off, so I didn't pay much attention to it.
:?: Because that happens so often around the 'burg? :?:
By Knucklehead
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#72497
Libertine wrote:
:?: Because that happens so often around the 'burg? :?:
See I told you that you were sarcastic! :P
By ATrain
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#72518
I remember the power outage of 04/05, and yes, East had power. We made sure the Main Campus kids knew it during the bball game too. I also remember the Earthquake, but I didn't feel it in Dorm 17-2, which is where I was when it happened. I'm starting to feel old now...
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