The one weekend I FINALLY have plenty of time to work on getting all my patient commissioners what they've been waiting for, we had a nasty and sudden rain and hail storm Saturday afternoon. Didn't think much about it, until my boyfriend went down into our basement to grab something...then called me to come down 'cuz there was some flooding. I didn't think much of it; assumed maybe a window well had leaked...well, I was right. A window well HAD leaked, but our entire carpeted 1500 square foot basement was SOAKED. Like, step on the carpet and SQUISH type soaked. THANKFULLY it didn't have time to reach the electronics (our basement is my boyfriend's theater room) before we noticed it, so we grabbed our shop vac and carpet cleaner and started sucking up as much water as we could. Again, THANKFULLY, my mom's boyfriend has his own carpet cleaning business, so he brought over his machine to help out, which did way more than our machines could do combined. But even with the help of my mom and her boyfriend, it took us over five hours to suck up all the water. @__@ And even then, the next day when my boyfriend went out and bought another fan to add to the three fans we already had running down there to circulate the airflow, we pulled up a corner of the carpet to find that the carpet padding was still so damp it would soak your palm if you pushed down on it...so Sunday was also dedicated to trying to dry things out further, throw out was was damaged, and try to salvage what we could from the boxes in the storage room that got wet.

Hopefully our insurance includes this kind of flooding. We're having an adjuster come out today to assess the damage, but we're both pretty certain we're going to have to replace all the carpeting and even some dry wall to avoid mold.

I was SO PISSED when this happened 'cuz it meant putting off a lot of work I owe people yet again, that I was totally snappy with everyone during the cleaning process. I was ready to make heads roll, if there were any heads to make roll since, ya know...this wasn't anyone's fault but Mother Nature's. Maybe I'll go chop down a tree to claim my vengeance.

Thankfully, yet again, I have such patient commissioners, but please remember that I'm always happy to give a full refund if you're tired of waiting or need the money. I will give it back in a heartbeat.