A group of residents in Amsterdam Hall have been offered temporary housing by the University, after their rooms in the bottom four floors of the building were flooded Saturday night.

University spokeswoman Candace Smith said the flood originated from a burst pipe in room 402, and spread to other rooms in the building.

“The pipe has been repaired and some folks are staying with friends until the water gets cleaned up,” Smith said.

According to reporters on scene, the flooding trickled down to the -01 and -02 tiers of rooms all the way to the first floor of the building.

Ibek Bahceci, a resident of 401, said she’s staying in her room tonight despite the offer of temporary housing from the University. Damage was done to her kitchen and living room, but the water didn’t spread to the bedroom area.

Residents of room 402 were not home when University Police officers were seen entering the room, which had about an inch and a half of water on the kitchen floor around 8:15 p.m.

The third floor of the building had about the same amount of water, and the flooding spread to the bedrooms of the students living there.

“The water was pouring out of the AC vent into the room,” said Sara Plotkin, a resident of 302.

Lauren Gross, another resident, said she had to move a lot of her belongings and that a printer was filled with water due to the flood.

“It slowly came into the bedrooms,” Gross said of the water.

Both students weren’t sure if they would take the temporary housing option.

“I saw their bedroom – their bedroom was completely soaked,” said Stephanie Matousek, who lives next door in room 301.

Matousek said she’s not sure if she and her roommates will take the temporary housing offered, since she didn’t know where that would be.

Patrick Cox, a resident of room 102, said he and his roommates thought someone was in the bathroom around 6:30 p.m., but discovered that water was flowing from the ceiling.

One roommate, Andrew Self, said he came home to the flooding coming from the bathroom, which ruined some school books and soaked his clothing. They worked to stop the spread of the water with a contraption made of baking pans, and then went to the upper floors to find out where the water was coming from.

“We went to the fourth floor and [the flooding] was even worse,” Cox said.

As of 8:40 p.m. an HVAC was being used to clean the fourth floor rooms.

A community director in the building declined to comment on the situation,.

– Hatchet Staff Writer Erica Obersi contributed to this report