I have been pulled to the news the past couple of weeks, watching the flooding back in the midwest. I was looking at a web site the other day, it was a slide show of pictures from the flooded area of Keokuk & Fort Madison, Iowa. There were several pictures that I knew the exact location of the picture - from being back there last summer. It has been kinda surreal for me, knowing I will be back in that area again in a few weeks.
Which brings me back to our own Flood Disaster of a couple weeks ago. Kimball went downstairs first thing in the morning and came back & had us go down - the ceiling above the toilet in the bathroom (yes, the wonderful Sponge Bob bathroom), had a huge bubble in the ceiling.
Terrell went down with a bucket, put a hole in the bubble and drained about a gallon or so of water out of the ceiling. For the rest of that day and the next, the bucket just sat on top of the toilet lid, catching a steady drip, drip, drip.
It wasn't until the next nite that Terrell was able to go down and pull down the ceiling to see where the drip was coming from. After a few brain-fart moments, he & I realized it was coming from the toilet upstairs. So he had to pull that toilet off and replace the seal with a double high new seal. Leak fixed. Hole still there. I have been promised that it will be fixed - Brad has volunteered his expertise to come patch the ceiling up again. Then I will have to repaint. I hope I still have enough left over paint to fix it up once again.
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ah, the joys of home ownership. what's your deductible on your home owners insurance? maybe you could just have them pay somebody to fix it for you....either way, doesn't look like a lot of fun! good luck!
I think it just adds to the whole spongebob theme...don't you.
We just got back from Nauvoo. We stayed in Keokuk and we were so worried that we wouldn't be able to get to our hotel. The Keokuk bridge was only open to locals on the 19th and we were lucky to get there on the 20th when they just opened it to the public again. There was some major flooding there...but hardly anybody in Nauvoo, we had the place to ourselves it seemed. We took lots of pictures, I hope to get them up on flickr soon.
That's no fun at all.
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