Roof Tampons, Petrified Cotton Candy and Other Flood Tales
My town has received 16 inches of rain in the past 48 hours! Here’s a house in my neighborhood.
We almost bought this house six months ago when we were house-hunting. We even had a contract on it, but pulled out because of some inspection issues:
The sellers told us we wouldn’t need flood insurance…
We do have water running through the crawl space of our house, but thanks to our trench-digging a few months ago, it flows right through the space and into the yard. Not ideal, but certainly workable!
Plus we got to run the fire place all weekend to keep the deluge of rain from spilling out into the floor. Nothing like a fire when it’s 75 degrees!
Earlier today we noticed a seeping brown spot in the playroom ceiling.
H went up to the attic to check it out, but the spot was almost beyond his reach. He called down and asked me to find a long stick and several tampons.
What was the point of questioning him? I grabbed the tampons.
He stobbed a few “medium flows” on the end of the stick and jammed them in the leaky spots.
So far they are working like a charm! It will be simple to change them out if the rain continues.
Please don’t think I am complaining because we are blessed to be safe and dry, but we have been confined to the home since Friday afternoon, and the children have resorted to some rather creative sources of entertainment.
Sue taped paper plates to her feet and scooted about the house.
H finally just went to the grocery store because we were seriously out of most staples.
We even resorted to cleaning out the pantry in search of interesting vittles and found this:
Yes, it’s petrified cotton candy.
Here’s the bottled water aisle in our local grocery:
Oh, and of course school is canceled for tomorrow! And nobody is talking about rabid skunks anymore either, although there was a news story about a man and his parrot who were rescued by jet ski.
Still, seriously the flooding in this area has been epic, and many people are in true trouble. So many homes were not in flood plains and therefore did not have flood insurance.
It’s got the makings of a fascinating week…
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