Raining....in my Apartment?

After being in Ireland in the snow and talking to friends who are studying abroad in Germany where the temperature is the negatives, every time I walk out my front door I feel like I am in Hawaii.  Last night when I arrived home with two of my roommates we opened up the lobby door and it sounded like it was pouring rain inside.  I walked in a couple of steps further and indeed it was poor rain coming from the top story.  I quickly ran up the two flights of stairs trying to dodge the rain and finally open the door to my own apartment to see a huge puddle in the front entrance.  As time went on the puddle turned into a little pond and began to fill up the entire apartment.  We quickly removed all of the rugs from the floor and removed anything of value from the floor.  Two of my roommates put on their rain boots and raincoats and ran up through what was now like a waterfall to the top story in attempt to wake up the people in the apt that the water was coming from.  No one was answering except one of the ladies next door to us.  She did not speak any English and was clearly also very concerned.  Immediately, we called a couple of different numbers including the fire department.  We began concocting stories in our mind of how if we did not get the water to stop then the roof above us would cave in because of the weight, along with maybe there is an elderly person in the top apartment who needs our help.  From a distance we could hear the fire department coming and heard them marching up the stairs.  As I went to bed last night with a flooded apartment I began to dream of waking up floating on my bed like a scene from castaway.  Needless to say, I did not get very much sleep last night.  The beauty of renting an apartment is that yes I was concerned but knowing it was not my problem but my landlords was a relief.  This morning the landlord knocked on our door and when she saw the flooded apartment almost has a heart attack.  She immediately called five different people talking very loud and fast.  People came in and out of the apartment trying to access the damage and fix to the apartment.  When I got back from school today I was greeted by a dry and cleaner than before apartment!