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Disasterous Morning
12 years ago
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Can my life stop being "interesting" for just a few days? Please.
For starters, Mondays have been sucking at work...it is like someone opens a can of techno-gremlins and spreads them all over the building every Monday and we spend till Friday getting rid of them.
Last night, before I went to bed, I took two Benadryl since I had a fire ant bite on my left ring finger, at the first joint. A really miserable place to have been bit by a fire ant. This meant that I woke up super loopy this morning.
I woke up some time last night, needing to go to the bathroom. Asurea was in the master bathroom so I went to our second bathroom (why we have a two bedroom, two bathroom apartment). All I did was lift the lid of the toilet and it was like the water line into the toilet exploded. Water went everywhere and kept going everywhere. I howled for Asurea since he had been messing with that toilet earlier in the evening and I didn't know what had happened or where the shut off was.
He got it turned off and (we thought) under control. Meanwhile I went to get towels to at least begin the process of cleaning up the water and we made plans to call the apartment fix it line in the morning.
When Asurea got up this morning for an appointment, he discovered that things had gotten really out of hand. Water had gotten all down the hall way and into the master bathroom and master closet and into the kitchen, all through the walls. So he immediately called the apartment repair line. I, meanwhile, after shaking off the loopiness, called my little sister to cat sit for us as we were imagining that major work will need to be done and I don't want it to cause cat problems. She agreed, thankfully.
The property manager, who lives on property came over ASAP, did a quick evaluation of the situation and helped to stem the flow of water by angling the misbehaving water line into the toilet (making Asurea feel kind of silly). She went off to call carpet people and the on-site maintenance guy arrived to start fixing the problem.
On the up side, at least the flooding is being caused by a busted water line and not an overflowing river (which has been the sword hanging over our heads for the last week...and hangs over our heads still). Wednesday's rain storm has parts of Texas still flooded. Wednesday was a test of my driving skills. Driving through a Texas Gully Washer on the way into work and driving through a very severe thunderstorm on the way home. Wind driven rain, massive lightening (that wrought all sorts of havoc with the computers at work during the evening). For those sorts of storms, its set the cruise control at 40 and touch neither the breaks nor the accelerator, keeps the chances of severe hydroplaning to a minimum.
It is funny, Asurea and I are really good at handling different sorts of crisis situations. House hold problems he deals with well, when I (momentarily) freeze up, where as I can handle things like crazy weather and driving in it, when he is curled up in the passenger seat, barely able to hold a conversation.
I will keep you all posted on how things go.
For starters, Mondays have been sucking at work...it is like someone opens a can of techno-gremlins and spreads them all over the building every Monday and we spend till Friday getting rid of them.
Last night, before I went to bed, I took two Benadryl since I had a fire ant bite on my left ring finger, at the first joint. A really miserable place to have been bit by a fire ant. This meant that I woke up super loopy this morning.
I woke up some time last night, needing to go to the bathroom. Asurea was in the master bathroom so I went to our second bathroom (why we have a two bedroom, two bathroom apartment). All I did was lift the lid of the toilet and it was like the water line into the toilet exploded. Water went everywhere and kept going everywhere. I howled for Asurea since he had been messing with that toilet earlier in the evening and I didn't know what had happened or where the shut off was.
He got it turned off and (we thought) under control. Meanwhile I went to get towels to at least begin the process of cleaning up the water and we made plans to call the apartment fix it line in the morning.
When Asurea got up this morning for an appointment, he discovered that things had gotten really out of hand. Water had gotten all down the hall way and into the master bathroom and master closet and into the kitchen, all through the walls. So he immediately called the apartment repair line. I, meanwhile, after shaking off the loopiness, called my little sister to cat sit for us as we were imagining that major work will need to be done and I don't want it to cause cat problems. She agreed, thankfully.
The property manager, who lives on property came over ASAP, did a quick evaluation of the situation and helped to stem the flow of water by angling the misbehaving water line into the toilet (making Asurea feel kind of silly). She went off to call carpet people and the on-site maintenance guy arrived to start fixing the problem.
On the up side, at least the flooding is being caused by a busted water line and not an overflowing river (which has been the sword hanging over our heads for the last week...and hangs over our heads still). Wednesday's rain storm has parts of Texas still flooded. Wednesday was a test of my driving skills. Driving through a Texas Gully Washer on the way into work and driving through a very severe thunderstorm on the way home. Wind driven rain, massive lightening (that wrought all sorts of havoc with the computers at work during the evening). For those sorts of storms, its set the cruise control at 40 and touch neither the breaks nor the accelerator, keeps the chances of severe hydroplaning to a minimum.
It is funny, Asurea and I are really good at handling different sorts of crisis situations. House hold problems he deals with well, when I (momentarily) freeze up, where as I can handle things like crazy weather and driving in it, when he is curled up in the passenger seat, barely able to hold a conversation.
I will keep you all posted on how things go.
On the up side, the problem got dealt with quickly and it was only the inflow to the toilet that was letting out water, not an overflowing sewer line like the last case of house flooding I had to deal with a few years ago as Asurea pointed out. The carpet people came in and set up a huge fan and an equally huge dehumidifier and ripped up the wet carpet pad. Asurea stayed home from work, since he had had a dental appointment and he works as a customer service person on the phones at work and, at least according to him, those things don't go together. I came home from work to the carpet in the hallway rippling along due to the fan blowing air under the carpet to dry it off. Asurea thinks that the movement of the carpet is probably part of the drying process.