ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Hurricane Isabel flooded classrooms and laboratories at the Naval Academy, destroying electrical systems and classroom computers and causing tens of millions of dollars in damage on the military college's waterfront campus.
Half of the academy's classroom space was still unusable Tuesday and midshipmen had to move to the auditorium, field house and basketball arena for some classes, said Cmdr. Rod Gibbons, an academy spokesman.
"We're in disaster recovery here at the academy," said Gibbons, who stressed that the buildings — some of which date to the early 1900s — are structurally fine. About 120,000 square feet of labs were soaked.