"The shuttles are running and we have kids on campus," said Jim Manke, a university spokesman. "It looks like a normal day. It's pretty gray, but that's Manoa."

Classes were canceled Monday and yesterday because the flash flood Saturday cut electricity to 35 buildings and damaged classrooms and offices. Classes were not held on Tuesday because of the elections.

"It looks like virtually everybody is back on the Hawaiian Electric Co. power grid at this point, with the exception of the four buildings that have had continuing problems — Ag Sciences, Sherman Laboratory, the Bio Medical Sciences Building and Hamilton Library," Manke said.

The four damaged buildings do have limited power from generators, Manke said.

But as the campus dries out and repairs are made, university officials are finding a new problem: mold.

The main concern is in facilities like libraries and laboratories, Manke said.

"We do know anecdotally that it is beginning to take hold in some areas," Manke said. "I know they have giant dehumidifiers in parts of Hamilton Library. It is a genuine concern and we are going to have to see what we can do to prevent it."

School officials were trying their best to return campus life to normal. And while repairs continued to the quarry parking structure, it will be open for tomorrow's Wahine volleyball game against Fresno State. Escalators to the Stan Sheriff Arena may not be repaired, however.

Across campus, reminders of the flood were everywhere, from highwater lines along building walls to the stench of rotting paper, standing water and mud.

The weekend flood caught many students in the middle of writing papers and needing the library for research.

Nghia Tran, a student in natural resources and environmental management from Vietnam, said this was especially difficult because he needed to use the library.

"This time of the semester is the end of the semester and we have a lot of papers," Tran said.

He said he was using the Internet and was trying to use Sinclair Library, but said that most of the material he needs is in Hamilton.

Nicole Scheman, a Ph.D. student in the same field, said she had been through worse when going to college in Guam. She wrote her master's thesis by candlelight after a pair of typhoons roared through the island.

But Scheman is hoping she'll get more time for an important paper that needs "major library research."

"Hopefully it will be pushed back," she said. "The 25-page paper is the major one for the semester. I have no way of getting the articles I need."