The Flood

A week ago we had a little flood...and not due to all the crazy run off either, just a broken hot water heater. Adam was up in Ogden with me as I was doing my final case study presentation (on Boerhaave's Syndrome and hyperparathyroidism and....I got to use my new favorite word at least 6 times...esophogogastroduodenoscopy, but that's not a part of this story)

It even got into the kitchen, here is the wall behind the stove

As you can see, minimal damage really. Count your blessings!!!

Carpet dries faster when you are watching it

The new water heater...$1600 later.

The other 1/2 of the basement...this currently isn't ours, but it will be soon!

Anyways, we got a call from our sweet little landlady informing us there was a flood. Adam was the one she called so I was getting all of it second hand. I thought we had a foot of flooding. YIPPEE. So we packed up quick and hauled back down to our apartment to assess the damage. I was super worried for 2 reasons-# 1 ALL my clothes were on the floor of the bedroom...folded mind you...but on the floor. #2 Our bed is directly on the floor as we have not bought a bed frame as of yet. Well when we pulled in it wasn't bad at all. Most of the flooding had actually drifted to the other side of the basement, so we only got a little bit. It basically just seeped into our side and saturated the carpet for about a foot out from the wall. Also, because I know you were worried about this, all my clothes were fine. They didn't even get wet. so there you have it. We lived through our first "disaster."