Poor Rachel's house flooded again! Two years ago, while she was working at Chautauqua, the water supply for the refrigerator ice maker sprung a leak and ran for days before her contractor happened to discover the damage. It ruined her hard wood floors, some of her brand new kitchen cabinets and flooded the basement. It took a lot of hard work to do all the repairs.
Now she has to do it all again. This time the culprit was the water feed to her toilet. Fortunately, she decided to come to book club last night after a day of cleaning at Chautauqua and then visit the house to drop off some things. She was horrified to find water spurting on the bathroom walls and her living room, both bedrooms and bathroom with two inches of water. The basement was even worse. She called us and we went right over. She also called VerHague's Disaster Response and Daryl arrived there immediately.
He vacuumed up the standing water from all the floors, hauled in ten industrial strength fans, a huge dehumidifier. Steve, Rachel and I poured water out of her storage containers in the basement while it rained on us. We got home about 1:30 and tried to sleep a bit. Then she was back at it this morning and I joined her in the afternoon.
Tomorrow, movers are coming to remove all the first floor furniture and load it into a pod. The insurance adjuster and floor contractor are going to see if they can salvage her hardwood floors. A dumpster is also being delivered for all the damaged items in the basement.
Nevertheless, I swam a mile yesterday before book club and then another mile today after I got home from working.
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