Alternative Title: Water, Water Everythewhere. This weekend was absolutely surreal, following a pretty epic fail on the part of our plumbing. So, in typical weekend intelligence fashion, here are the highlights.
House (or what's left of it...) and home:
I came home a little early from work on Friday to a pretty nasty smell and the awe-inspiring sight of my own personal waterfall from the kitchen ceiling. Apparently, over the course of the day, the master bathroom toilet (the one just off of our bedroom) had backed up. But instead of draining normally, it clogged on the way back down. Which wouldn't have been so bad, if it weren't for the fact that the toilet kept running and eventually ran over, creating a heel-deep lake of standing sewage. The water soaked the carpet in the closet, the master bedroom, the hallway and the loft upstairs. It also apparently got underneath the sinks in the bathroom and found the holes drilled to install the security system, creating the lovely waterfall from the inset can light fixtures in the kitchen and the ventilation duct over the living room love seat.
You know that's gonna make for a rocking weekend... -.-;
After making a rather panicked call to D, I got the shampooer from the garage and started the task of picking up all the standing water. A good workout with the plunger, 5 shampooer buckets and a half dozen towels later, I finally got the stream coming through the ceiling shaved down to a trickle. The closet was a lost cause: the carpet was completely soaked through, as were most of the shoes that were laying around haphazardly. I was able to salvage my green docks, D's wedding boots, a nice pair of heels and some sandals that she just bought. Everything else on the floor was, at the lease, heavily dampened, and most things were soaked completely through.
We called the insurance office, who sent out a service contractor to start cutting holes in the walls and ceiling and tear up the carpet. After doing their best to make my house look like Swiss Cheese, they set up some massive air movers and dehumidifiers. It sounded like a jet engine was warming up in our house. Combined with the smell and the newly exposed carpet tacks, we decided that it was not very feasible to stay in the house, and so we got a suite at the Embassy for the weekend while things dried out.
We still kept our weekend plans, though. We had wanted to go out and party a little, and still were able to, but with the added bonus of having a hotel room to go back to. -.^ Ended up hitting a little rock bar for some live band action in Alamo Heights with some friends. Once the weekend was over and the service contractor was back out, it was clear that we were probably going to be packed up while they did restoration.
To give you an idea of just how hectic this has been: I started this blog entry on Monday and just barely finished it today. -.- I will try my best to keep you all updated, and we appreciate all your thoughts and prayers while we get this squared away.
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