For the love...thats all that comes to mind!

So my mom and I were enjoying a quiet night at home on Sunday, watching Desperate Housewives and getting some laundry done. About 35-45 minutes into the show, it went to commercials and my mom decided to make some popcorn and I was going to go switch loads real quick, since I started the washer about 7:30-7:45 ish. My mom came out the kitchen first to find at least 1 or more inches of water in the kitchen. All you could hear was water running down the walls. I ran downstairs to find 4 or 5 holes in the ceiling with water coming out of them. I opened the storage room door, which is directly below the washer/dryer and it was like a waterfall. Of course the room was a total mess to start with and then add a waterfall. My mom and I were hauling stuff out of the room like no other. At one point I did a total face dive on the tile section of the basement. All you could do was laugh at the time but I seriously thought I broke my foot. Then the phone started ringing, and my mom cant answer it because she is stuck under a waterfall and so I somehow stand up and was able to get the phone. We were dumping out trashcans and storage containers to catch all the water...utter madness! I thought I was going to dry, but its like those times where you have an emergency and find the strength to carry a 90 lb box of antiques books out from under a waterfall.
Needless to say...we all stayed home yesterday and tried to clean up some more. Restoration specialist were sent out to try and get stuff mended before it got worse. They had to tear up all the tiles in the kitchen and half of the carpet in our basement. Not to mention the 3 holes they had to make in the ceiling downstairs. Then to make it worse, all the dirty laundry was sitting on the floor in the laundry room when it happened so we had like 5 loads of wet dirty laundry; plus the load of towels in the washer. My mom and I did 11 loads of laundry at the laundry mat yesterday...no fun!
The real fun part is that to dry out the house, they brought in these fans and they are all over. Just the name of the fan says it all...Gale Force! It is so freakin loud in the kitchen and basement and we have to keep them on 24-7. I just cant wait until we start really going through all the boxes that got wet. Im sure some childhood memories will be lost.
I will get some pictures up hopefully tonight! Until then...stay dry!