the searbys

Last night at about 9:30 Jen went downstairs in our new house to discover that our living and dining room were flooding. It had been raining about an hour, pretty hard. But of course you don't think of rain as something to worry that much about when you have a roof. Not so much. The rain was coming into our house by overflowing the porch and then literally flowing through the sliding doors. When I ran downstairs it was moving fast toward the kitchen. We got towels and began moving stuff around and trying to slow the flow down. We called our contractor, not knowing who else to call, and he came right away. Then we called our friends Chris and Renae. They came right over and brought a shop-vac. By 10:45 or so we had most of the water sopped or sucked up. The rain had stopped too. But we had a much bigger problem...our wood floors.

We sent everyone home around midnight as there wasn't much else we could do besides put fans on it and wait. Then this morning we had our "disaster response team" meeting. That involved the site foreman, his supervisor, the flooring guy and us. It was decided pretty much immediately that we had to get the floor up to reduce the risk of mold forming. And that we had a major drainage problem in the back of the building that needed to be addressed. So, they went to work on both.

Under our warranty, the builder is still responsible for everything. Of course, it's not great that it happened in the first place but I have to say, thus far they've treated us very well and have done everything they can to make it right. I hope and pray they'll continue down that path. Tonight we had Outback Steakhouse dinner on them. So we aren't completely miserable.

Long story short, it'll probably be at least a week before they get us back to normal. We're hoping that Evan will wait to join the world until after we get the new floor in and get things settled again. We'll see. Here's some pics to prove that we really did have a flood. If only I'd had a toy ship, I would have put it out there for fun.

-joel

Here it is...

Our great friend Chris to the rescue

The Army of Towels

They started tearing up the floor already...here's Jen...looks pregnant finally

It's sad when bad things happen to good floors.

It really is a nice floor.

As I remember (and this memory is 7 years old), it rains every single day in the summer in Florida. Are the contractors doing anything about your sliding doors?  

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OH I am SO sorry!!!! At least it seems that everyone is being good to you and getting it taken care of as soon as possible. . . . Kristin  

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you are both more gracious and patient than I!
Ash  

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