Thursday, March 26, 2009

Ok, seriously now!

I've honest to God had enough of the water around here!
Tuesday, the private contractor had the water turned off to fix the pipe that is direct into our house...Wednesday, the water company had the water turned off to fix the main pipe out in the middle of the road...Now today, we have a mini flood in our basement! How could this happen after all this pipe fixing you may ask?! I asked the same thing.
Frank got up for work this morning at his usual 430am. He gets almost all dressed, but his jeans are still hanging in the basement. See, my dear husband is too lazy to go downstairs and bring them all up and put them away, he'd rather have to go all the way down to the basement EVERY MORNING to get a new pair of work jeans. Whatever, his walk not mine. But for once, i'm glad he did have to go down there. He went down to get his jeans and heard water running. Now, this is very unlikely in our basement. So he looked toward the back of the basement and saw a mini river starting. He walked toward the back of the basement and noticed that the wall was pretty much soaked half way up, and he could hear water rushing in the basement next door. Well, there is one spot where you can pretty much see over to the other basement, and he noticed a waterfall. Yup, that's right, i said waterfall, in their basement. So of course he realized that they had sprung a leak and were quickly flooding. He proceeds to come upstairs, wake me up, and ask me what to do. Like i have a clue here babe! My Uncle Jack is a plumber, so Frank says to me "Should i call Jack?", to which i reply "It's 445am, are you out of your mind?!". Of course, he realized that he must be, and decided that he would call at 7am, a more decent hour. But what he didn't realize at that time was that there was nothing Uncle Jack could do until we got in touch with the neighbors. For those of you who aren't familiar with our situation, to make a long story short, the neighbors are trying to sell the house for their mother who is in the hospital...and they live a decent drive away. Well, Frank used his brain (good job baby), and found the neighbors home phone number and called them to tell them what was going on so they could come and do something. Thank god that when he called them at 530AM, they were awake. They rushed here and shut the water off. They found someone who could fix everything that was wrong on their side, and they told us to check and see if anything was wrong on our side or if anything was ruined, and their insurance would cover it. They also thanked us profusely for calling them. Honestly though, it was to our benefit, so our basement wouldn't flood as well. But we were also doing the neighborly thing, they are really nice people. So needless to say, i am totally fed up with water at this point!

1 comment:

Jeff, Traci and Kaden said...

What a not fun morning! That water is definitely a problem for you guys. Grrrr. I hope everything gets fixed soon.

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