Tonight when I visited Main Building I felt large areas on the first floor where the bricks on the outside of the building are saturated with water.  Main Building was built in the 1850’s and the bricks hold the structure up.  On the ground level there are 4 thicknesses of bricks.  For the outside bricks to be slick with water coming from inside the building means all four layers of bricks and all of the mortar in the walls of the saturated areas is filled with water.

When it gets below freezing again, the bricks and mortar in main building will freeze, which will not be good for the building.  Ice damaged bricks in the bottom floor of a building that is supported by its brick exterior, does not bode well for the structural integrity of the building.