The Flood

Friday, August 21st (we've been married for two weeks!!)

5:35 p.m.

Our washer and dryer are delivered! I very much dispise doing laundry but was so excited to see our washer and dryer because we had so laundry to do and was running out of clothes! We started a did a couple of loads that evening and put a load in the washer as we were heading to bed.

12:20 a.m.

"POUND, POUND, SLAM, POUND... This is the fire and police, open the door!!!" Image waking up to this in the middle of the night. This is what Geoff and I woke up to! After being completely startled, we both jumped out of bed to find our feet in a lake of water surrounding our bed. Geoff quickly ran to our front door, while I tried to wake up and not totally freak out. Geoff jumbled the lock and to try and open our door but the fire department had pounded our door so hard to wake us up that they had jammed it. So, the next thing Geoff heard was, "Sir, stand back." He did and then saw our front door pumbled through and the fire and police department pushing through to enter our apartment.

12:30 a.m.

Now, finally with the fire and police department in our apartment and all lights on we discovered that this thing below was the culprit of our flooded apartment...

Yes, our new washer that was delivered less than 12 hours before had somehow not recognized when to begin cycling, and therefore had been running water for over an hour and a half!!

12:45

With the help of the fire and police departments we were able to contact our maintenance crew and report the incident. Their is a 24 hour emergency service but it is not immediate, so we had to wait 30 minutes for the guy to arrive.

12:50

We were standing around with the departments wondering what we could do to fix the problem as soon as possible (I am in total panic mode), when one of the firemen saw our SHAMWOW's. He laughed as he stated, "I wonder how much the SHAMWOW's would soak up?" We all kind of chuckled but then decided to try and put them to the test.

The SHAMWOW's were unbelievable! They did not do too much to our carpeted areas because the water was soaked in too much. But in our tiled areas, such as the bathrooms, the SHAMWOW's were able to soak up all the water and complete dry these areas. It was amazing!

Here's a video of Geoff drying out our bathroom. Sorry it's sideways... don't know how to fix it?! Just turn your head for a second.

Here are a few other pictures as we were cleaning up the mess (most of the pictures were taken for our insurance company... not for my blog - haha).

(Geoff's flip-flop is floating...)

1:30

The apartment maintenance man arrived to our apartment to inspect the situation. It was bad...! He then called a water extracting company to come as soon as possible - which would be another 45 minutes...

2:15 a.m.

By this time, it's been a long night for Geoff and I. Finally the water extracter arrives. He brings a very large hose and vaccum up to our third floor apartment and begins to suck the water out of our floor. As you can only image this process was not the quietest. This large hose in our apartment was hooked to a truck outside with a loud machine pumping the water. Everyone in our apartment building and the surrounding had to have heard!! I felt so bad that I baked cookies for our neighbors the next day.

3:30
After the water was extracted, 8 large industrial fans and the biggest de-humidifier I have ever seen were placed all over our apartment to completely dry our floors.

It took 60 hours for our apartment to be completely dry from the fans. As you can image they are not very quiet, so Geoff and I had to sleep on our livingroom floor for 3 nights because our bedroom was the worst room and had the most fans.

**Our enemy for the weekend!

Welcome to marriage!!

First, Geoff and I are very grateful that no one was hurt from the situation and we did not have any damages. Though I would never wish the experience on any other person, I am thankful for the sitaution and that Geoff and I were able to work through it together and were able to grow in our marriage. We definitely learned a lot of lessons from the experience and hopefully will not make the same mistakes! Marriage is fun, even in the tough times!! I am thankful I have Geoff to experience them with and for his calm, relax temperament during situations like this and that he is able to even find humor in them!!

We made it through!