Second Flood

Remember how I said that 2017 was going to be a great year?

Remember how since then we have gotten stuck in the snow and had to get a tow truck.

Remember how we got flooded out of our house and moved so quickly without packing.

Remember how we had a second flood........No you don't? 

WELL GUESS WHAT?! We were flooded out AGAIN!

I woke up for work one morning and had this feeling immediately to get all the things off our bedroom floor before showering and getting ready. I am so grateful I did because I got a text from Zach later on that day saying our room had flooded. 

I knew it was going to happen so I wasn't to surprised BUT it didn't end there. The flood spread throughout the whole basement and by the time I got home from work there was standing water in the hall, storage room, and our bedroom with puddles all throughout the rest of the rooms. I tried to take a video but it got worse since even the video was taken (its to long to upload).

Shop vacs became our friend that day and my little brother got to it. It felt like a nonstop job but he did very well. By end of day his efforts seems useless as the water just kept coming and coming. With our luck this all happened on a weekend so when Monday came along and the insurance people came to look at the damage they said to get everything out and the disaster trucks would be here in an hour.

With only an hour to work we busted to get all the beds broken down and everything out of the basement as they charge 100 bucks a room to clear out. We managed to finish right before they showed up, what?

The disaster trucks worked quickly taking up carpets, ripping out the underlay and taking off floorboards. They seemed to be in and out so quickly and we had fans a blowing for the next week to clear out all that moisture.

Andie, Jake and Brooklyn handled the second flood like champs even though at this point they were so afraid we would have to move again as all our things were rushed and loaded into the garage as fast as we could run up and down those darn stairs, my hips regretted every flight.

After the basement was aired out we took our time moving back down into it and have made some future plans to our arrangement. Now we all just have a fear of rain and especially that darn sump pump we will fear the rest of our lives now haha.