Do you have days like these? Let me tell you about ours, that started Monday night. We got 2 1/2 inches of rain during the day on Monday. A miracle, considering we were a third behind on our yearly rainfall and suffering a severe drought. Then from midnight through 8 am, we received another 2 inches. It continued to rain on Tuesday during the day (you know what they say- when it rains it pours! Pun intended...). As a creature of habit, I was having my usual cleaning day on Tuesday. I put Grace down for a nap and proceeded to go down into the basement to clean up after 14 rug rats we have down there every Monday night with our Bible Study.
Squish. Oh no! Water leaking from the ceiling? No, that's dry. Proceed to walk further into basement. Squash. Feel carpet. Uh-Oh. Continue walking to the door leading to the unfinished part of the basement, knowing with dread what is on the other side, hoping that I'm wrong. I'm not. Nope, there are rugs and other items floating in standing water, with the sump pump apparently on strike.
After Erik finally was released (or did he release himself?) from the ball and chain called work, we spent hours after Grace went to bed bringing up garbage bags and box after box of wet and ruined items. The garbage man is going to flip when he comes to our house tomorrow!
The update today after the restoration crew got here was all the carpet and pads had to come up and be trashed (tile in the bathroom anyone?) but so far there are no signs of mold. We have an army of fans and dehumidifiers down there that will remain until Monday. It sounds like an airport down there right now.
The Week Of Calamity actually started on Friday, when I came down with a stomach bug, which led to Grace having a lot of unsupervised time, pizza for Grace and Erik two nights in a row, me trying to make a conference at church that I had signed up for months ago (and really wanted to attend) and not making it much past lunch (duh!). Erik's exam in a week and a half when it is major crunch time and he can't possibly deal with more. Enter the "Flood", Erik stuck at work with a project that should have taken three weeks, but they gave him three days; me left with a basement full of water wondering what to do; and Grace still having too much unsupervised time.
By the way, how did I revive the sump pump on strike, you ask? Well, kicked it of course!
1 comment:
That's the patented Evboy maneuver-he slammed my iPod and fixed it. So sorry for your flood, but on the bright side-you cleaned out a bunch of stuff you shouldn't have been saving anyway!
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