It's just sad so many memories gone

I worked for a school district doing IT work for a while. There was a crazy amount of red tape involved to transfer equipment between schools, I was told due to funding sources and other budgeting matters. We had a middle school close, and we cleared out their labs, full of decent computers, which all went to the warehouse and sat. Meanwhile my days were spent trying to keep other computers functioning that should have been replaced years ago. Towards the end of my time there, I smuggled a bunch of nice unused monitors out of one school, and brought them to another that had pretty crummy ones. The teachers were thrilled! I left before I could hear the fallout about "unauthorized equipment transfers".

Welcome to government waste. This is why you pay so much in taxes and get so little for every tax dollar.

@@compmanio36 Hey man government contracts don't come cheap /eyeroll

Somebody had those violins though, probably redistributed via ebay

might as well BLJ on some stairs to explore further this place is as big as a castle

probably got too expensive to maintain all of it... it always comes down to budget shortages...

@@smt4090 i appreciate the culture in your comment ~

@@albertovitsch453 Which is insane, you would think that investing more money into your schools is an obvious thing to do.

@@albertovitsch453 but the power is still on...money being spent either way, right?

I would love to go here one day

damn bro yall had everything in one school thats crazy

That's so cool!!

Did y’all have a marching band? I ask cuz I sophomore in marching band

What was the name of the school I ant to see more videos of it!!!!!

I really was thinking they were going to find a full viola but it was just a fingerboard

@@solared Same. Still, I'm sure they could (or could have) taken that and given it to somebody who builds violins or sold it. A good fingerboard can be sold for about $40 without strings attached to it.

@@natalierobinson6138 that's what I was thinking. I just glanced at it during the video so I'm not sure if that was a cello or viola fingerboard but I can't be bothered to look again. After all, could've gotten good money for that.

the piano would have been where the money at if it wasn’t vandalized

@@catnoir7993 question is even if the piano was intact how the fuck would they bring it out of the school

That Hobart mixer in the kitchen is worth more than my truck.

Ikr ugh. As a violin player non musical violins suck. Don’t recommend them for beginners

These guys do have a funny habit of stating g the obvious; "the trophy case lights are still on." "But they took the trophies." "Yeah..."

Lmao 😂 Captain obviousness’ but mean well but yep bloody hilarious!

He was about to say musical equipment but then saw it was a room full of violin ... cases.

And half those kids probably never thought their school would just be abandoned like this.

It gets you wondering what's its story with the students and how half them felt that the memory's they made are lost and forgotten in time this reminds me of my highschool year's

Probably a lot of fights...

@@sz5876 Why you say fight? why not friendships or love or laughs? why you think it had to be a "a lot of fights"

some guy throwing a milk cartin as far as he can, good memories were had in those halls for sure

And that oven that someone trashed is worth over $30,000.

And the pianos

@@aerofish0 no you can go to thrift store and get them for free or like 200

@@FishingWithPiette if you’re buying a thrift store piano for $200 it’s probably in poor condition and i bet that grand that was thrown off the stage was worth more before it got destroyed

@@FishingWithPiette That's a Baldwin baby grand. Even damaged, that's worth thousands of dollars.

Most kids I went to school with would be thinking "I always dreamt of this, never thought id see it"

@@sparkplug1018 I wanna tell you something and please take it seriously, I am your son, and I was born because of you.

@@sparkplug1018 Don't say the word "Dream" or "Dreamt" without my permission Dad 😢😢😢

@@RequiemDream Yeah sorry, you're not. Good luck finding him though

Same

Honestly. Going to an outdoor school without working AC living in the South sucks. I don't get how they couldn't repurpose any of the stuff let alone building, they had a pool for christs sake

would not be too much of a step down...

That school looks hella good. It's been 20 years my schools been made (smaller, not in america, different looks) and its not good

It looks better than 90% of schools

@WindowsLogic Productions I love those animations!

We have two campuses. Both on separate parts of the county, no not separate high schools, legit gotta have your crap split .

You think this is big?😂 I went to Pompano Beach High School and THAT was huge😂😂

@@ryanrussell4721 Gonna have to Google that.

@@ryanrussell4721 Charles F Brush High in Ohio had 1550-1700+ students going there at its all time peak (during my years there) officially, though I swear the count was much closer to 2000....

Its back open but is fostering cross country elementary middle while their school is getting built I go there as an 8th grader.

@@kay.7700 I know, I went there

Yeah I can imagine because my school was huge like this. They could turn my high school into a hospital campus if it were ever abandoned.

But just anything else in life you will quickly adjust. I went to a very large high school and i thought when i entered my freshman year i would be lost for a long time but i quickly learned the school and thats been over 20yrs ago (1997) and i still know the layout of that school like it was yesterday

It was just a square. 😂 easy. There’s stairwells at every corner. And the classrooms were numbered by the floor and how close to the center it was. The school is a giant cube basically. I got locked in the stairwell with the giant “do not enter” sign. Very fun.

my schools shaped like an E and the room numbers like to skip around, was interesting watching the freshmen get lost during the first two weeks of school

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. John 3:16-17.

It would be destroyed

Yooooo that would be cool but it would be sad if they teared it down or smth

💯

Regressed... Won't be nice to see. Hardly any natural decay takes place in one year, but a lot of vandalism and trashing things for no reason certainly can be expected. So sad.

Totally agree with you

LoL I was thinking the same thing.

Lol

Well that's because nobody is using them, so they obviously are in better condition.

I am from the UK and it is the same plus my tutor group use their masks to break their chairs

lmao😂😂

I’m just looking to see if anyone saw something creepy like a face or something

They should but not for this. Everything in that school is old and useless.

Factory schools are a failed experiment. Actually schools of indoctrination and, based on the lunch menu, probably crimes against humanity.

It says 'Forest High' on one of the signs that they passed.

@@haileymacisaac5089 how many fights you think happened there

@@haileymacisaac5089 I already looked up Forest High no the school

The wall they passed sayed FPHS and I looked it up and this video popped up so I'm doing research

@@BigNy32 it can also be assumed this school closed between 2016 and 2018 judging by the 2017 calender seen towards the beginning of the video (since it's possible they updated the calender just before closing the school, or didn't bother updating the calender when closing)

Indeed

Im pretty sure that was XP not 7, which makes it even better lmao

@@robyndoney7318 no, it is Windows 7 13:39

Interestingly, I think the first computer they hard-powered off actually had an active session on it still

Long live Windows 7!

In the UK we have schools that still use the 200+ year old building they were originally established in. Such buildings are protected and difficult to bring up to modern standards in most cases, but in villages where building a new school would either mess with the village aesthetic or if there's simply no space to build one, we make do with what we have.

@@HarmonicaMustang when the school was built the surrounding area was probably mostly upper middle class people, but eventually the area got poorer and more "urban" . at that point it's only a matter of time before the school closes due to funding issues based on low standardized test scores and high dropout rate

@@orenthalsimpson wow, so they close schools because the students don't do well? I would have thought the government would give more money to underperforming schools to give the students more support? So when a poor school closes, where do the students go then?

I'd totally buy it for 1 dollar and turn it into something profitable or just a private home with a pool and home cinema etc. WTH is wrong with these people?! When was this abandoned...yesterday?!

@@HarmonicaMustang Here in Sweden we still use a building which was built in the 16th century (and the wear on the stairs show it haha). Mind you the school is much older than that, having been established in 1085, but the idea of new buildings like the ones seen in the video standing empty feels so strange.

I don’t even HAVE an auditorium. All we have is the cafeteria/gymnasium for plays and stuff.

My elementary school auditorium was pretty nice. Mine now, on the other hand, looks like it used to be a cafeteria.

None of the schools I went to had an auditorium like that. At my high school we had a stage at our gym.

True I wish they could of gotten in and went back and could see who all was there

I don’t get the fear of cameras. They are filming themselves aren’t they? Obviously no one will be monitoring even if they are still on.

That’s what they did to warren high in warren Michigan. It has been Successful

On gmaps it shows that the building is an elementry and middle school now so mabye it was repurposed

I know right-

Just think of how much money they could make off of this, or how many schools they could help with all this!

Maybe because theres no need for one in the area?

If you have a pet I want you to abandone it, can you do that for me? Just abandone it.

@@RequiemDream No I'm not gonna abandon any pet I have

@@MoodyMickey How many pats do you have? 😱

@@RequiemDream um, I have one. I had two at one point, but my Betta fish died

@@MoodyMickey Nooo not the fish 😭😢🐟 I like pet fish 😢

@@booyeah yeah, this school is a waste of tax payer money

Was closed for renovations. It's now back open....

The taxpayers do. Who do you think.

@@Tom-90210 not open, google reveals the school as permanently closed

@@Imshittingmypants what school is this and where

Me too

@@kiri2235 your smart

Based on video evidence, the school closed around 2017. Even then all of those computers were outdated and practically junk. I was more shocked to see the old CRT televisions. That is really outdated for 2017. I went to a small high school that struggles for cash and they upgraded their TVs back around 2005-2010 to LCD. And yes, the absolute waste of electricity is the biggest complaint. Easily hundreds (probably more) of dollars a month wasted.

came here to see if anyone who went to this school was here.

@@jenpen1107 Me too

this is my old school i swear it is. i graduated in 98. after the school closed they temporarily put another high school in there while their new building was being built.

@@matthewlightford5043 but why did it go abandoned?

@@xxsupremoz2187 a lot of cirty schools where combined for some reason this isn’t the only school. but i also know that’s the community wanted the school gone because it was an urban school. and the area was in the suburbs. but i got confirmation that was definitely my high school.

I can't stop thinking about alllllll the stuff on there that ppl could use..

What do you mean by lower income schools? Doesn't all schools get the same funding? Just curious, I'm not American

ChiefBeatzOfficial I wish it was like that.. unfortunately it’s not 😞 poorer areas get less money than the rich/highly populated schools. It’s crappy, I know, but unfortunately that’s the way it is

Let me rephrase that schools that are older and need some improvement. That school had a lot of chairs, lunch room tables, desk etc. It could be donated .

Sandi Harbert Even the computers (which can get really expensive) were in very good condition. I agree, it’s a huge waste

It's possible they might not be allowed to remove it or it's basically built inside the building so it would be difficult to remove it without destroying it.

A new concert grand piano actually costs over $100,000 new, with top makes reaching prices of $160,000.

Sucks to see a couple of pianos in that condition.

@@brianhaflin9799 the building is abandoned. They could cut walls/doorways to get it out, no issue. This is bureaucratic red tape wasting hundreds of thousands of dollars of desperately needed equipment in a horribly underfunded education system.

@@samanthawright8830 Yeah, those pianos could have easily been moved before they were destroyed. Piano movers can get them out.

This is beautiful

My thoughts exactly, man! I couldn’t of said it any better. All of those memories and emotions laid to rest.

Same, I was thinking this as well.

What really ticks me off is when school boards tear perfectly good schools down just to rebuild them. New facilities are nice, but why destroy history like that?

@@davidmorris9871 they do that because they have to find ways to blow taxpayers money. I would love to know how much money is being wasted to just keep the power on in this school. A school with an indoor pool?? But that's not good enough so they close it?? School boards waste more money than anyone knows. This video proves it.

Nothing but silent halls and buzzing sounds from the lights! Beautiful and eerie !

probably had a few urban legends about the unused parts as well, if I had to take a guess

This. Literally only HALF the school was used. That hallway with the music rooms were never used the entire time I went there. The 2nd floor that side was office for home school kids. 3rd floor was the culinary rooms that were never used either. 4th floor (and greenhouse) was locked closed my senior year. We NEVER used the courtyard except 1 time my freshman year for a nice cookout. But there was a goose that laid eggs there EVERY year there. There’s even dance studios in the basement. Abandoned for decades. The pool was literally cleared out and fixed during my senior year.

my grandfather worked for a school district. not a teacher though. One school he helped at had a closed off second floor. Once he caught some kids having sex up there

You probably wouldn’t have liked my high school them. There was an entire floor that was for all intents and purposes, abandoned. Only time kids went up there was at the beginning and end of the school year to get books.

@@dragonflame8913 lmao did anyone not go and explore the curiosity wouldve killed me and i wouldve probably got in hella trouble

so what is the name of the school?

Forest high

Well city planning and development is something that is vital to their success.

@@anthonie909 it's not forest high. They're in the same school district though.

@@djkeevee what is the school name then?

😢 I remember going to a town hall to stop the city from shutting it down.

id rather die in a conflict than live off crackers and water

Let's get this out onto a tray!

@@mcbeet1 Nice

Let's get steve to taste them!

Umm no, you have reached that point :)

I hear ya...

I agree 🤦🏼‍♀️ I was born in 92”

That school was built in the mid 60's

@@ogalief what school is it?

This is so cool to hear. Like its crazy hearing stories from people who actually went here, even just given the odds of alumni even stumbling on this video in the first place. So cool

It’s got a very distinct sent, yeah. Usually when stenches irritating enough you naturally tend to filter it out over time. This is why you can think your room smells fine when your mom thinks it smells like something died. Not with chlorine, though, the smell is basically impossible to adapt to, so you’ll never not smell chlorine in a pool. Also, fun side note, you don’t actually smell chlorine when you’re near a pool. What you’re really smelling is chlorine reacting with other chemicals in the water. What yields the strongest reaction? Urine. So, if you’re by a pool and it smells extra strong, that probably means there’s a lot of piss in the water.

@@justafellerwithnoprofilepi4546 took the words out my mouth

Romeo

Same as soon as I heard them say the pool is this way first thing i smell is chlorine it’s purely from memory and the familiarity of school it’s like psychological conditioning almost everyone has it

That chlorine smell was so strong in the school that you could smell as soon as you get to the first floor. Especially near the gym. Funny enough, that pool wasn’t even filled for the majority of the time that I went here. Until my senior year’s pool party to celebrate the pool being repaired. 😂

There are probably still people working inside of the building. Paperwork, cleaning up, removing stuff, etc. It actually can take several years to remove everything from an building this size.

Depending on where the school is, they probably left the heat on to prevent pipes from freezing in the winter. Cheaper to leave it running.

Staffing costs the most in a school. Each building needs administrators, custodians, and secretaries. Close a school and you can reduce those staffing needs, and you won’t need to replace them at a new school. A building that size probably had four or five admins at about 100,000 a year each.

Surprisingly all major retailers amusement parks movies that own massive buildings that are abandoned usually leave the power on its cheaper to do so.

That's common core maff

Declining enrollment, just move the remaining kids to another school. Why come and get all this stuff you don't need and would just have to store somewhere? Just leave it where it is.

It looks like there was a shooting and they just closed the school the next day maybe? Here’s the article that I found from another commenter: www.ocala-news.com/2021/04/22/forest-high-school-gunman-sentenced-to-30-years-in-prison/#:~:text=Sky%20Bouche,April%2020%2C%202018%20shooting%20incident

@@seasaonedfingernails Is that this place though? That may have accelerated it if it is thats for sure.

Long lists of crimes. Constant lock downs. Lack of funding for maintenance. Lack of teachers. We walked through metal detectors every single day during my senior year and that continued afterwards. It was a literal jail at that point. There was always cops everywhere. We had no homecomings because of a stabbing at one before I even went there. Bathroom stayed locked because of people setting toilet paper on fire or smoking. The hallways ALWAYS smelled like weed. Constantly. This was the school that kids would go to if they got expelled from another school. I was top 3 of my class and all I did was take naps in class. We got free A’s in our classes for no reason. We had no electives, no clubs, nothing fun. We as students, were abandoned long before the school actually closed.

I'm surprised they weren't stolen long ago tbh

@@brockbreacher Unless 4th gen and up, they're practically useless even with Linux. Granted you will have pc resalers AKA people who watch Linus tech tips and hold no certs buy older 2-3rd gen intel chips to resale for a premium price to idiots. Idiots selling stuff to bigger idiots.

@@brockbreacher tbh tho, just overwrite the disk and boot Ubuntu server. Setup ssh and leave it mining crypto currency for as long as they run. I'd say you can make at least $10 a day from the tax payers.

@brock breacher : May be the PC's aren't the first top bench performers, but the routers, screens etc. are quite okay e.g for just read the newspapers and search library catalogues! I mean my first PC was Taiwan clone 8086, you could see every point of the black and white graphic (hercules or CGA) be painted when doing Mandelbrot.......very slowly 😁 but programming the routines on Borland Pascal doesn't differ !

@@ngroy8636 While you're at it, do this with the server equipment that was left there.

🤩

Hi

i know it hurts to see them on the ground. I wonder how they ended up that way.

Like..The Gallows?

Not haunted. If you just spend money repairing some things and clean up the mess, you have a really good school fr

@@bumdeskanzler they didn't say it was haunted, said it would be a good location to shoot a movie.

@@giannicarandang yes but for a haunted high school movie and it doesnt look haunted tho

@@bumdeskanzler doesn't have to. part of being creative is working with what you have, if anyone shot a movie here they probably wouldn't have access to the switches so they couldn't turn lights off but horror isn't always based around darkness. i can think of a few things that'd work for horror here even with all the light as long as it was done right

The ones they turned on were i-series too, throw windows 10 on them and they'd still be completely usable today

Certified Dumbass The one I feel the worst for is the one that was still on when they found it with its fan howling

In my experience being around Lenovo computers when they get to be 5 or 6 years old they are extremely prone to breaking down every computer lab in my school has at least four or five broken down think stations

Those are either M91p or M92p, still relevant and they do run Windows 10. A memory upgrade and an SSD makes them very quick machines. My experience is different in that the extended life failure rate of those is very low. Less than 5% in fact at 7 years of age.

Techmaster276 Even though it’s just Lenovo junk I would too Because they still work... at least some still do

That’s probably why the power and heat are still on. The district is keeping their options open... that’s what they do in my city

Well it wasn't "abandoned". It is now a private prep academy , grades 9~12.

That cost MONEY

Government is wasting your money then claiming they need more.

@@stanleyhape8427 where is it

The cops knew it was you but couldn’t pin it on you.

@@Sashazur absolutely they did. At the point I think they said no harm no fowl.

I don't know about the school, but my high school as two buildings, for different grades, 11-15 first part, 15-18 second part. And it's probably like that, you'll probably never see the other part of the buildings, cause you'll be late if you gotta walk a mile to another class.

How many fights happen there

Not to mention hundreds of thousands sleeping rough on the streets, this could be accommodation.

*could have been salvaged. WTF???

@@gekkomonster7837 You fail to realize that putting a bunch of street people indoors together results in assaults, injuries, rapes and deaths. They don't want to follow rules and want to use their drugs.

this is the benefit of creating money out of nothing and forcing the entire planet to use and pay for it...

These buildings could’ve been turned into something useful again and yet so many are left to rot. They would spend less money renovating them and transforming them as compared to demolishing

That's interesting haha

yea they are massive and crowded.... the halls get backed up like a traffic jam during all the switching periods. you gotta squeeze through everyone lol

that's what I always think when I see american schools here and in movies, they seem to have dozens of clubs for after school activities and different sports teams which compete against each other.

All the elementary, middle, and high schools are huge. Larger population so it's very crowded.

This seems to be the most common type of school but my school in California and most west coast schools are made up of multiple one story buildings, all halls are outdoors. My high school, with like 6 buildings most having 6 classes each not counting the theater/gym etc. buildings is dwarfed by this one!

School sizes vary depending on location and areas serviced (for example, I went to high school in a small town, but it was quite large because it served many communities in the region). Obviously, the U.S. is very diverse in population in geography. I imagine that U.S. schools are probably huge in general compared to some countries where land is more scarce (again, depends on the area - New York City vs. Fargo, North Dakota, for example). Also, we are indulgent. That all said, schools in urban areas with large populations are generally MASSIVE.

I graduated in 1981 from there. It’s heartbreaking. The alumni fought hard to keep it open. We still gather all the time. My grandson briefly went there when his school moved there while they renovated.

Don’t give them ideas

Yeah, I really hope they never do though, I hate jumpscares 😭😭

they did do it once before but that was a LONGGG time ago lol

YES!!! LOL!!!

100% lmao

Nice!

I was hoping they would open the containers and get those crackers out on a tray!

I need to see this *so badly*

Capitalize the first letter of a new sentence and especially "I" when referring to yourself. It gives off a vibe of being weak and it's not just me who sees it that way.

@@riproar11 why are you like this

You tell ‘em buddy. Making fun of people in the comment section. You showed him

riproar11 lmao internet slang + i’m gay so don’t care

@ᑭIᗰᑭᒪE ᖴᗩᑕE and that's how it's gonna be

Or you know uuuh my house

@@Alex-ow6hk what could you possibly want from there that you are willing to put in your home ? Those old ass crappy school computers ? 30 year old TVs? dirty chairs and tables?

@@tezy0193 Those 30-year-old tvs are worth if you restore them or donate them to collectors.

@@mr.moonmn1436 How soon can you be here? I've got a 32" Toshiba for you.

@@peterbills4129 Free candy included?

I miss drawing on them. Made some amazing artwork only to have it erased and then do it all over the next day.

My dad has one of the square ones with the wood legs in his workshop he got when they renovated a old school building.

@@physkogamer7139 drawing or carving? 😂

An empty school is eerie in general. When I was a student, I came in at 6am on a cold December morning to start getting equipment ready for the end-of-year school assembly, as rehearsals were starting at 10. I had keys so I could get in. Without the hustle and bustle of kids (even in their classrooms which always had some ambience), the dead silence was creepy to say the least. An occasional door creak at the top of a staircase really carried down the three flights to me, and the mind tried to fight off the wild imaginations as I concentrated on the task at hand. Really any building that is only seen busy (e.g. school, hospital, train/airport terminal) is eerie when empty and silent.

My dad use to be the head maintenance superintendent for my county in the 80's, and would often be at my elementary school as it was the newest one in the county where they rushed my 5 year old Kindergarten class in to meet the 86 school year deadline, so the building would often need work, so I would be there with him after hours so I could spend time with him. Also when I would stay with him at his house(parents split when I was 2, and my only sister was 7), we would get calls to check alarms in the middle of the night, or something else that went wrong, and he would take me with him instead of leaving me at home alone, and I can 100% say as a small child in Kindergarten till I got more comfortable with it by 2nd/3rd grade schools at night for me where indeed creepy AF!!!

Sounds awesome! 👍👍👍🙂👋

Where is it located, what is the full name of the school? Just so curious!

M V It’s in Baltimore. Use the high school abbreviation in Baltimore and you’ll find it

39°21′52″N 76°42′14″W should i make it even easier :P

This is/was my high school. Class of 1970. I recognized the year book, the band room and that pool. We all hated it!! Catholic school. School was a monstrosity. They built a new one.

Those PCs are worth nothing in comparison, all stuff left behind has basically no value.

@@Max34557 Those computers are still worth about $50 to $100 each, they were worth more back when that school was closed. They could have easily sold them on an auction

@@Pasi123 yup, and trust me people would by those things, hell bring them to another school

@@Max34557 They could have distributed them to other schools that needs equip.

Those PC's don't have really good value, but certainly could be given away to other schools who may be in need of some.

even sadder it wasn’t taken out when the school was shut down

@@leakesonasucs ??? weird behavior

Unfortunately in a few years it’ll probably look terrible like every other abandoned building:/

@@ScoobyDooIsDead its not its to foster schools who’s waiting to get their school rebuilt I go there.

it is not a 'large task' to drain the pipes in a home. You turn off the valve at the main and drain it from the lowest spigot on your property. Depending on how far the spigot is from the main it can take anywhere from 1-5 minutes. In a large building like this i dont see it being any different. You shut off the water at the source and drain it from the lowest point. Water isnt being trapped anywhere, thats not how piping is ran, the only place that would have standing water is P traps

@@Durnhold It gets a lot more in depth when you are ensuring that every trap is vacant of water too... as well as any belly in any copper or pex runs... Doing it and doing it right, so it still doesn't rupture anyway, are two very different things. And one takes a good bit more time and effort. Furthermore, to transition that into the scale of a commercial property like this, and it's clearly a no contest scenario. This would be an unfathomable amount of bellys, traps, and even various piping that may or may not have a direct connection, due to commercial plumbing practices differing greatly from residential. The fact that I alluded to residential for comparison's sake, when talking explicitly about commercial... then having you come in and talk your deal about how easy it truly is in a house setting... well this shows just how unrelated your response even is. I mean, that side of it wasn't even the subject matter... merely supporting information. And again, there's doing it and then there's doing it right. And if all one does is turn off the main and open the lowest valve, well first off they won't even drain it that way, as you'll still have to open the highest valve as well... all of them in the home preferably. To allow make up air into the system and even have it drain at all. But again, if you did this and only this, you'd come back after winter to find that all of your P, S, and J traps have frozen and ruptured. As well as if it's an older home and there is terracotta under the cement in the basement, and it has a belly trap in it (or just a belly), then congrats, you are now digging up your basement and replacing that as well. If you have PVC or ABS in your first level floors, of course then meaning that they are hanging from the ceiling in the basement, and if any of these have a low spot... congrats, you're replacing this now too... and you'll have to fix every issue, pressurize the system, find the next issue, let it down.... fix that... redo over and over until no more issues. And that's just on the feed side. Drains are WAY worse to track all of the cracks down in. I've gone through enough residential properties, recovering them after exactly this has occurred. After some new buyer gets them cheap, then realizes that it's not a small fix to remove every single wall, ceiling, etc... finding every compromised pipe that was allowed to freeze and burst. And when this is reality, and it is a commercial setting of which is still tethered to a utilized building no less... well of course they are simply going to opt to keep the utilities on to the extent to at least not allow the place to deteriorate at an alarmingly accelerated level. The simple act of keeping a bit of heat and some juice means that they don't have to employ contractors down the road, paying tens of thousands if not greatly more, to remedy the issues that shutting it off would create. It's definitely worth the bill small monthly bill to anyone in the decision making seat.

@@Dex99SS the reason i talked about homes is because you said "this is a large task, even in smaller homes." You dont have to drain traps individually, if the system is empty of water, any remaining water in the traps that freeze has room to expand and will not damage the pipe. You are correct that you have to also open a valve at the top of the system to get it to drain. A large scale system is still going to have the same physics as a small scale one. Water drains to the lowest point, any remaining small amounts of water in traps or bellies has room to expand and wont damage the pipe. I am a pipefitter by trade I install as well as winterize systems in industrial environments. Large scale systems. Prior to that I worked as a residential plumber for years. It is not difficult to drain or winterize a system. Also would like to say we could very well just have different definitions of "difficult" and that just because it isnt difficult doesn't mean it isnt expensive.

@@Dex99SS never have I seen a KZfaq comment so long. Why do you have so much time to write this

@@daniilivanov9601 Not being retarded helps... It keeps the typing time down.... Takes like 3 min or less when you are able to actually speak properly, articulate ones words, and type effectively at 90-100wpm+ ... The better question is, why is everyone else so pathetic and inept that words are now scary when in numbers? If it isn't 140 characters or less, it's TLDR ... which really limits what an idiot can potentially learn. Real catch 22 there... real revolving door.

A big waste, but I bet kids and vandals turned some of the stuff on.

Only in America

I bet the town probably complains about not having enough money and resources as well.

This school is now a private prep school. Not a colossal waste of anything.

@@MustBe1980 Detroit Collegiate Prep Academy

This school is not in Virginia.

@@jamiechampion299 yea it is Woodbridge Virginia where did u think it was

@@RyanRapid No, it isn't in VA at all. It's in Maryland.

People break in to steal stuff that's useful or to stay in

Since we are too foolish to find alternative uses for the building poor folk usually get desperate and steal from them

These guys got inside, which means someone else could too. And not everyone enters abandoned buildings just to film, a lot do it to steal stuff or just smash things up.

@Yar Nunya of course, I think the disappointment lies in the lack of respect for stuff.

If they ever recover equipment to sell or donate, I have a feeling the oven will be scrapped because of the broken doors. Even if you can buy replacement doors for it.

The price of the whole oven itself is around $10-$20k, depending on the model. They sell those windows in the door for about $400. I found the industrial kitchen catalogue at work (our steam table is broken) and they have replacement parts listed but it's probably best to get a certified technician to do it.

same for the hobart mixer, even though it seems quite old those things are still worth thousands

Old kitchen and medical equipment can still after 20+ years have thousands of dollars in value, it because of this I know of piece of medical equipment still in use that uses Windows 95, it not on any network, as it air gapped

They probably lock it to stop people getting in or if the sports hall is in use for a game they probably close off the rest of the school.

That's how High School works in America. Techinically they can force you to be in school by law so you're not allowed to skip. I'm glad I don't live in America anymore

christopher békési tell that to my attendance lol I skipped 411 classes my senior year I never seen metal bars to lock kids into a specific area at my school of 1500 kids

@@grantsdad177 Doesn't make what I said any less true kid.

This has to be the Bronx?