According to the latest report from the New York Post, the flagship Apple Store at 5th Avenue in Manhattan filled with water after heavy rains in the metropolis on Wednesday, May 8th. The report of the NY Post has revealed that the store was flooded due to a leak in the roof of the retail site. As a result of that water started to flood in the retail store soon after it was opened at 8:00 am. In fact, 15 customers were present in the flagship Apple store shopping when this unfortunate incident took place. The report also divulged that the employees of the store had blamed the construction that was completed last year as the reason behind the leak:
“According to one worker, today’s deluge of water may have been due to problems with construction completed last year on the roof of the store. It’s because of the construction they did last year on the roof. They didn’t do it right. There are large flat stones up there [that you walk across as you go into the store]. And with the heavy rain this morning, [the water] came through.”
Talking to NY Post a customer Errol Rappaport said that, “I was down there at 5:45am because I had trouble backing up my computer and everyone started yelling. There was a leak then–boom–the whole thing opened up out of the ceiling. Then everyone started scrambling, moving tables…It didn’t look like there were any electrical issues otherwise they would have evacuated the store.”
However, people who had removed the water from the Apple Store were quick to respond and by 10:00 am they had quickly removed a majority of the water from the site. Moreover, the retail store remained open for customers during the entire period, except for the western portion of the site that was blocked off and one table displaying iPads was covered with plastic.
Some of the ceiling tiles were badly affected by the water and were still soaked when thrown into dumpsters. Also, there were six to seven big plastic buckets on the affected area, which were used to put the waste and water. As far as the damages in the store are concerned, the NY Post report has not mentioned any details, which suggests that most probably all the gadgets remained safe when the water flood into the store.
Source: 9to5Mac
Photo: NYPost
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