Mini Flood of 2012

Last Friday I woke up and was puttering around the house and Lily wanted to be on the porch and growl at people, so being the wonderful dog owner that I am I let her out. I went out there with her, with my coffee, and I heard water dripping. In this moment I realized that my porch and storage closet are just a little on the wet side. My thought is: really the sprinkler waters my porch?!?! Then I realize that there is a pool of water off the patio. My new thought: oh the sprinkler must have busted I will have to let the office know. Then I realize that the water is pouring off one of the upper floors. Thought: that must suck for them.

At this point I need more coffee and to finish getting ready so I head in the house and open the blinds to have just a little natural light. At this point I look at the wall and realize that there are zebra stripes... My thought: really how did I not notice that before. After a second or two I realize that they are new from the upstairs flood... REALLY??

The 'zebra' stripes... hard to see but they are there

This part is really wet

At this point I feel the carpet and realize that it is soaked. I move all of the furniture and call the apartment company to see what was happening. It turns out that one of the upstairs tenants water heater broke and flooded their apartment and mine and my neighbors. The maintenance guys came by and cut out about 2 feet wide chunk of carpet pad. That carpet pad was very very wet, it left a trail of water as they carried it out.

At this point they have replaced the carpet pad and at some point they are going to paint. I was a little thrilled that I didn't have much furniture because nothing got ruined in the mini flood. It was so disheartening to see all of this water everywhere. But I am glad that I hadn't gotten a couch yet. Hopefully there will not be a major flood coming up soon or really ever. I hate when craziness happens that you have no control over, it makes me just a little crazy.

Have you ever been flooded? It sucks I know...