Nick and I had taken vacation days on Monday to finish putting down the flooring in the front room. We'd moved everything from the front room into the living room, aka: the room that flooded. Not only that, but being the obsessive mother that I am every year after school I sort through everything that Shadow has brought home, organize it, then pack it away. There were stacks of his schoolwork and art all in the floor when it happened. Not to mention that that's where Nick kept all of his gaming systems, the television, DVD's, etc. So in short - that really fucking sucked.
Monday morning thunder woke us up. I knew that Emma was probably freaking out so I went and let her out of her crate and Scooter out of my room. Then I grabbed some apple juice and joined Nick on the couch. He was playing a game and we were talking about all the crap we needed to do that day. The dogs were being quiet so Nick decided to check on them. When he came back in the room he said "The floor feels wet." I stood up and much to my horror - it certainly did. We started looking around and noticed a water line rising against the wall. We promptly panicked. The floor went from "damp" to "Holy shit - the carpet is floating!" in a matter of moments. It reached ankle deep before it started receding.
We found where the water was coming in. Nick went to the door... we knew there was a storm because we could hear the thunder and rain, but we weren't prepared for what we saw. When he opened the door water poured in. He screamed "Oh shit!" and slammed the door. The water was pushing in from under it. There was a water line about halfway up the tire on my car when all was said and done.
We've been there for over a year and nothing like that has ever happened despite the amount of rainfall. The city is working on the walking trail behind our house and I think they may have jacked up the drainage ditch. That - and we have a neighbor two houses down who damns up his yard so that any rainfall pools in our and our next-door neighbors yards. 😠
We spent our vacation day NOT finishing the floor in the front room. We spent it moving stuff and taking up wet carpet. Nick moved stuff and I hacked up the carpet with a box cutter and drug it out. My fingers hurt... looks like I nearly worked my fingerprints off. 😩 The room is still damp, but we used a wet / dry vacuum to suck up most of the water and we've had heaters and fans running in it non-stop. Hopefully, we can get it dry before it molds or anything horrible like that.
We also replaced the weather-stripping under the door. We're even considering getting some sand bags until we can get something else more permanent done. Oh, and we did call the insurance company... my agent said that a homeowner's policy does NOT cover floods. If a pipe busted or something it would be different. He also said that you have to live in a flood zone to get flood insurance - which we don't.
On the bright side at least we were home. If we hadn't been everything would've been ruined for sure.
Needless to say, our house is in total chaos right now (not to mention the yard). I hate that... I usually have trouble sleeping on an average day if the house is out of order so this shit is really stressing me out. We took yesterday off to get more stuff moved and to work on getting things dried out... luckily - we got a lot accomplished. But we went in to work two hours late today.
When I woke up I had a migraine and my neck and shoulders were tight and my stomach was upset... I think the stress finally caught up to me. I called the boss and told him I couldn't drive right then, but that we'd get in as soon as we could. I took some Excedrin and laid back down... my head's not hurting and I don't feel as bad as I did when I woke up so we made it in. I actually think that two hours did us some good... Shadow had been with my mom while all of this was going on and he always seems tense when he gets home, Nick was tired and sore, too... I think we all just needed that extra little bit of rest. *sigh*
Now to get things straightened back out. m(_ _)m Also, more crap from the last few days: Emma will normally chew anything she can get her mouth on. Over the last few days it seemed to be getting worse. I thought that maybe she was just stressed with so much changing going on. But I checked her mouth... she has a tooth that looks like it might be giving her trouble so I'm making a vet appointment today.
A light bulb exploded yesterday. It scared the hell out of me.
It's been a really fun time around here.
It's been a really fun time around here.
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