Well, we managed to survive the great Arlington- flood of 2006, but our poor house paid the high price for luxury-living in Ghetto-ville, Tx. This picture is not of our house, city, or even state, but I thought it added to the drama of the incident, and I don't ever take my own pictures of things.
Our house was not submerged, but as we drove into the driveway from visiting Yoda (that's right, Yoda.....remind me and I'll tell you later) on Sunday the right side of our castle was being overrun by the moat surrounding it. Apparantly, though the realtor and the previous owner conveniently forgot to mention, our backyard serves as the second largest lake in DFW after it rains heavily. How sad for Texas that it took 18 months or so to have a rain hard enough to find this out. Regardless, the levies of our house broke and the flood waters came and soaked two rooms.
Thankfully, Chad bravely risked life and limb (or just warm and comfortable) to come and dig a trench outside and help move stuff out of the soaking-wet carpet. At times such as these true-heroes really do emerge.
In all seriousness, we spent that entire afternoon and evening moving things out of the library and Jamie's room and Shop-Vac'ing the carpet. It became apparant that I wasn't even making a dent, so Julie contacted one of her clients yesterday and he agreed to bring his carpet-cleaning company for a reduced me. We decided that saving the carpet was worth a few bucks, so they came yesterday....and all is well, right?...almost. Below our carpets, unknown to us, lies old wood floors that have to be dehumidified or they will buckle (which can't be good). This, of course, adds a significant cost, because machines have to be rented and used. Our cheap way out has turned out to be anything but, though it should all be over soon.
Next step: find a way to keep this from happening again - maybe we could burn the house down?
aww, michael. I'm really sorry. that stinks:( hope it all get fixed and hope its not too expensive. hope that sometime we can all get together again.