It’s not been the best Christmas this year for UK World of Warcraft streamer Preach, whose Preach Gaming office was flooded.
The cold winter weather caused pipes to burst, leading to a flood in every room – and equipment being damaged to the tune of many thousands of pounds.
ChunkeyNinja, aka Chris, a video editor who also handles graphics and art for Preach Gaming, said the office had been completely soaked, and that the office and greenscreen were damaged but some cameras and PCs were able to be salvaged.
The team operate out of Ashton, Manchester. Preach (aka Mike) was away at the time of the burst pipes, and reacted in the below video, which shows the Preach Gaming office flooded as Chris wades through water.
It shows several pieces of equipment, like audio gear, damaged, as well as soaking wet walls, ceiling, speakers, chairs, monitors and more.
Preach also said they didn’t have flood insurance, as they’re in the top floor of a building.
Preach said: “This could not have possibly happened at a worse time. All the pipes in the ceiling burst, and that means that every single room in the studio got destroyed. My desk is destroyed, the plushies are destroyed, our green screen is destroyed, I think our fireplace set is sort of okay but I assume it’s on a wet-through carpet so may be destroyed. And there’s no power.
“Hopefully it’s not too bad, Chris managed to salvage most of the stuff to his house, my brother came down with his car.
“This is 10 years of my life, just wet.”
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“There’s nothing I can do. What this means going forward, I don’t know exactly what’s going to happen. The building is going to be unusable for a bit.”
You can see what the Preach office used to look like in this tour video.
Preach returned to the UK on December 23rd and said he’s going to focus on family and Christmas time, and will not check the Preach Gaming office for a day or so.
Even things like Preachcon pictures on the wall have been ruined by the flooding.
Earlier in the summer, Preachcon 2022 sold out as the annual gaming event returned to Manchester for the first time following the covid-19 outbreak.
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